From 2006: Billy figures out how to get the NSA to stop.

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Funny how I drew this more than ten years ago and yet, I feel no safer having a completely free...

...conversation on my cell phone.  Or in email or texts, unless they are encrypted (and even then, I know it's not a perfect system).  The thing is, we still don't know if the NSA is still spying on us.  No heads have rolled to suggest anyone has been punished.  And here it is 10 years after these stories first hit the press (and 3 years after Edward Snowden helped us learn about the programs that actually spy on us) and we have zero proof or even evidence that things have changed inside the American intelligence community.

America, the land of the free(?)


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