What if the secret the spies don't want anyone to know is that they are incompetent and that mass surveillance doesn't make us safer ? -- egregiously stolen fr

What if the secret the spies don't want anyone to know is that they are incompetent and that mass surveillance doesn't make us safer ? -- egregiously stolen from Adam Curtis's 'Bugger' http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-... The real danger will be the actual coming threat. Instead of their much trumpeted 'manufactured' stooge plots, our incompetent spies seem to be unable to effectively stop real battle hardened death zealots - despite near total surveillance. Jails are surveilled in a panopticon way but rife with drugs and crime - so mass surveillance is demonstrably ineffective there. The other worry is the nagging doubt that the fears of government are their political opponents rather than enemies of the state - our fears are not aligned with theirs. That our political and surveillance classes are interested in power not our safety is continually evidenced by the horrifying way they use they blood of their own citizens to try to justify more political power. Q.V. the recent attempt to link the crypto debate with the Paris atrocities or the invasion of Iraq. So much of this conflict is manufactured by seeming negligence, the conveniently blind eye. For instance: locking up a young disaffected drug dealer with the number 2 recruiter for Al Quaeda at the time (in France). Locked in the same jail cell together, a few years later the young recruit, recruits others and shoots a cartoonist. In Bitter lake, Adam Curtis posits that Daesh/ ISIS was the product of a super jail in Iraq and much of the ground support of the conflict is from the local who initally supported their liberators but lost due to endless Whitehall red tape about compensation for farmers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02gyz6b/adam-curtis-bitter-lake http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02gyz6b/adam-curtis-bi...