I know a wise Jew living in the US who can contribute to exposing the anti-Jewish nature of politics here on Hyehudi.org. He agrees with me, but he is too fearful to type anything up, because of current mass-surveillance.
He once put his name on a letter to the paper and suffers “random” extra “scrutiny” in airports ever since. מי שנכווה ברותחין מושך ידו בפושרין. Well, don’t use your own name next time! He is not alone, either. Maybe if I summarise my counter-claim, this will prove helpful.
A major criticism of authoritarianism and central planning is the “Pretense of Knowledge”. But this is not just about prices. The accursed NSA’s slogan is “Collect It All”. But this itself handicaps them!
If they put the magnifying glass on someone, he is going to be roasted (אי אמר מלכותא עקרנא טורי עקר טורי ולא הדר ביה). But, unless one is super-effective in the ideological revolution in the here and now (bureaucracies have high time-preference), what are the chances they aim davka at him?! Importantly, you can be the worst toady to authoritarians and still get marked as a false positive!
Even if they wanted to stop something like terrorism, they couldn’t, because the more they know the less they assimilate:
- Stovepiping and turf wars.
- Tech problems are legion in government; trust me.
- Incompatible computer systems among different agencies.
- The quality of the workers is usually just “good-enough-for-government”.
- They are choked by their own ever-growing rules.
In one marvelous metaphor: Signal to noise ratio!
And when the victims don’t impute legitimacy to government spying, they don’t assist external sanctions with false-guilt self-governance, so the state lacks enough resources, or, to be more precise, they lack the right kind of resources. NSA spying is useless, so don’t let it stop you. Compare American SIGINT and the Israeli state’s HUMINT against the Jews and Arabs. One works; the other doesn’t.
People are actually spying back on the state some, like James O’Keefe, car-cams, etc.
Bottom line: Pardon me, but if you won’t expose the monsters, this is either unimportant to you, or you lack Bitachon.