This is about unwarranted wiretaps being used to discredit and take out political opposition. This song predates Obama's war on whistleblowers, the FISA amendment act, USA PATRIOT Act, recent changes to NDAA that allow indefinite detention of American citizens, and 'Enhanced Interrogation'. Simply put, we've got a bigger problem now.
Just think about what these changes enable in a retold narrative of this song. The owl isn't even needed for gathering info anymore, with mass surveillance and a file on everybody, the CIA doesn't need costly targeted wiretaps. With the FISA amendments act, telecoms are immune from prosecution when participating with warrentless wiretaps. But with enormous homeland security budgets, this didn't stop them from flying helicopters during Occupy events to keep a watch. Agent provocateurs were in the crowds trying to escalate things towards violence. The famous Occupy Cleveland bomb threat was entirely manufactured by the FBI who just needed to mislead a few dumb anarchist kids to take the fall, supplying them with all the plans and even a fake bomb. The NDAA enables indefinite pretrial detention of anybody they don't like. Even retweets have been cited for felony charges against journalists investigating the military industrial lobbying complex. Things have changed since Watergate, and whistleblowers have even fewer protections from these little games.
This is about unwarranted wiretaps being used to discredit and take out political opposition. This song predates Obama's war on whistleblowers, the FISA amendment act, USA PATRIOT Act, recent changes to NDAA that allow indefinite detention of American citizens, and 'Enhanced Interrogation'. Simply put, we've got a bigger problem now.
Just think about what these changes enable in a retold narrative of this song. The owl isn't even needed for gathering info anymore, with mass surveillance and a file on everybody, the CIA doesn't need costly targeted wiretaps. With the FISA amendments act, telecoms are immune from prosecution when participating with warrentless wiretaps. But with enormous homeland security budgets, this didn't stop them from flying helicopters during Occupy events to keep a watch. Agent provocateurs were in the crowds trying to escalate things towards violence. The famous Occupy Cleveland bomb threat was entirely manufactured by the FBI who just needed to mislead a few dumb anarchist kids to take the fall, supplying them with all the plans and even a fake bomb. The NDAA enables indefinite pretrial detention of anybody they don't like. Even retweets have been cited for felony charges against journalists investigating the military industrial lobbying complex. Things have changed since Watergate, and whistleblowers have even fewer protections from these little games.