No conspiracy theorist here--seriously--but it is truly frightening how the American public has turned a blind eye to the way our government has flipped terrorism on its own citizens.
What does it say about us, our government and the terrorists, that the NSA thinks the best way to stop an attack on the chubby homeland is to infiltrate every one of our computers, phones and snail mail? OK, try as you will, to make a case, about doing that to all other countries, but to do it to us, sounds the alarm bells to me. How many terrorist attacks came from us? How many?
We are no longer a free country. Call me paranoid, but what other conclusion can you draw? And to say, "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to worry about,"...well, I would say that you are one naive piece of newspaper blowing in the wind.
Our entire court system is based on the principle of innocent until proven guilty; yet every time I turn on the news, I hear some putz saying that he doesn't care that the government spies on his communications. Really? And we still have the nerve to claim that this is the greatest country on Earth? Are we deaf, dumb and blind?
Most of all. I believe in consistency. I've always been liberal. I make no apologies about it. You ask me, I will tell you: I voted for Obama twice. But Obama is no liberal.
I spent the Bush years bitching about The Patriot Act, and how it eroded our civil liberties, and all of my liberal friends agreed. But now, when Obama does his best Bush interpretation, many of my liberal friends act like Obama is just 'protecting' us. Well, sorry, Sam, those liberals turned out to be closet Orwell jackaninnies. If you believe something in 2003, how does the same thing turn all soft and fuzzy in 2013?
Sounds like a whippy, weak backbone to me. If this is Democrat, call my number, and pull my name from the list, friend. I like people who believe in something, and stick to it, no matter what the consequences. These wishy-washy candy-asses can go find someone else for a vote.
Lousy ****s.