NSA: Freedom Through Eavesdropping

Another fine article posted on MSNBC which should have everyone who supports Bush and the freshly renewed Patriot Act feeling all warm and tingly inside. (read here ---> "Bush authorized NSA to spy on Americans")

Of course, if you really want to believe what the article says about the NSA only eavesdropping on about 500 people at a time then talk to me about some prime acreage I have for sale on the Moon. Seriously folks, this is the agency with the secret, multi-billion dollar budget who has refused to reveal it's workings to even congressional committees. Their mission is to gather intelligence and they monitor all forms of communication within the country. So you better believe that more than just a few hundred Americans have caught their attention. It's easy to dismiss this as paranoia but the reality is, if its your job to collect intelligence, then you collect it and when everything you do is classified then you have little worry about what methods you use, who you spy upon and whether or not it is legal.

And there are enough ignorant Americans out there who would read that story above and lie to themselves about a liberal press just stirring up trouble for good old boy W. Just like all the short lived outrage about the Patriot Act and look what happened, elected officials renewed it. They knew that they have enough ignorant constituents that they'd have nobody to answer to and their re-elections are still guaranteed. The typical man or woman on the street just shrugs and says, it doesn't concern me. As long as Starbuck's keeps pouring latte's and the malls stay open who cares what the government is doing.

I've said it before and I'm saying it again. Your rights and freedoms won't disappear overnight. No, they will be willingly voted away without a fuss and it might be the next generation that really begins to suffer some serious oppression. But it begins now and a lot of people just don't give a damn. God bless you good, conservative, fundamentalist patriots!