New York thugs display their arrogance by playing the storm troopers' theme from Star Wars out of their cars.

The US takes two contradictory positions about disclosing when it uses information in court that was derived from massive surveillance. Each position is used to block judicial consideration of the constitutionality of massive surveillance.

Staff at the Committee for Public Safety * have been ordered not to view certain Washington Post articles on computers not classified "secret", because then for bureaucratic reasons they will have to go through a sort of secrecy exorcism.

The US government pretends that Snowden's leaks are still secret, and is carrying this to the level of lunacy.

A person that persistently denies reality is dangerous. A powerful state that persistently denies reality is extremely dangerous. These delusions could become a "reason" to kill people.

* Officially, the "Department of Homeland Security".

The Department of "Justice", in drawing up conditions for protecting journalism, is defining a class of privileged "official" journalists who will get protection, in order to deny it to most journalists.

Of course, the protected journalists will be those from the mainstream media, who will usually support the state (with occasional exceptions).

A thousand people have died in the US since 2007 due to not getting the usual vaccines.