He said: "What was worrying Edward Snowden was that we were, unknowingly, sleep-walking into a society where the infrastructure of total surveillance was being built behind our backs, without any discussion or wide public knowledge.
Upon entering the space, we were told we would see the queen, but instructed never to look her in the eye, nor turn our backs, without retreating three paces first and then bowing or curtseying.
Often we have ignored the Freds of our world, letting their comments roll off of our backs without fully acknowledging the part we've played in their inhumane growth.
It's a kind of triple whammy of hypocrisy: these are people who purportedly believe in restrained government spending, individual liberties, and getting government off our backs, yet without hesitation they will expand the reach of the state, gobble up public money, and violate individual privacy, so long as there is profit in it.
Mr. Bagapsh reacted angrily, telling the state news agency that the plant "belongs to us, and no agreements or accords signed behind our back and without due consideration of our interests will have any force".
Frank and Pam Henson, who with their daughter live directly opposite the Forman's site in Lock Keepers' Cottage, former location for Channel 4 programme The Big Breakfast, have already lived through construction of the Olympic stadium "virtually in our back garden without unduly disturbing us".
"We don't like people going behind our backs, using our music without asking, and we don't like the Romney campaign," the lead singer, Brian Aubert, said in a statement.
"We don't like people going behind our backs, using our music without asking, and we don't like the Romney campaign," the band's frontman Brian Aubert wrote.
When it comes time, later this fall or in the early spring, I'm not sure if my boyfriend, Rock, and I will be able to move these monsters without hurting our backs.
"But what angers me so much about this situation is that knowing full well that there was strong opposition to a prisoner swap in Congress, the Administration decided to go behind our backs and release the detainees without the notification required by law," he said.
"We can't fight with one hand tied behind our back," he said, without flatly ruling out the possibility of a change in approach.
