EAVESDROPPING!

EAVESDROPPING!

(Green Bay Press Gazette, Houghton-Muffin Company, Reuters)

(Aljazeera, Washington Times, Frazer Chronicle)

 

It is a funny world that we live in; it’s a place where common everyday terms don’t mean what they started out to mean. I think that the powers that be want it that way, its called convolution, or in simpler terms…..job security. The longer it takes common people to understand the better these people, (whoever they are) like it.

Governmental officials especially in the United States talk about how complex issues are today, and how diplomatic solutions take time. World issues are twisted, and intricate, therefore governmental officials are necessary to arrive at some sort of final plan that everybody can basically agree on. The National Security Agency has never…..I repeat, never, seen a piece of information or news that they couldn’t turn around into some sort of controversy, world-wide!

Authority is a terrible power to have; governments down through the annals of history have attempted to have as much as possible over its people. Now I understand that even though governments and corporations are seen as entities, and have some of the same rights as real oxygen breathing human beings, they really aren’t. Neither has a cardiovascular or respiratory system, neither has the power of reason, and neither has a shelf life!

The Bush administration had more lawyers at its beck and call than any other administration in U.S. history; these little beavers worked day and night checking the legality of what George W. Bush and Dick Cheney laid out all under the guise of state protection or a better ability by those old powers that be to wage war on terrorists.

GO AHEAD, I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE

 

And we are, our own worst enemy when it comes to our private lives, if I had a buck for every time I heard somebody say they (government agencies) can probe all they want, I have nothing to hide. Well isn’t that just hunky-dory, I’m pleased as punch that people have nothing to hide, go ahead take rights away, you don’t really think that they’ll be returned anytime soon…..do you?

People that have this attitude (nothing to hide), really chafe my butt, they are two things, I guarantee it, they are ignorant, number one, and two, they have a misplaced sense of what it takes to be patriotic. Protecting people’s rights needs to be first and foremost in our brand of government, democratic! We hold free elections, we self govern, and we can hold our elected officials responsible for their actions…..every two or four years.

It seems as if government today is all about power and control, this attitude I simply can’t understand, how in hell  so many of these power monger gathered in one spot…..are we that asleep that we can’t see things turning towards a more authoritarian brand of governance?  

The National Security Agency is not authorized by Congress or the special intelligence court created by the foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to gather contact lists (people that we talk with). Collecting this information is illegal in the U.S. So the National Security Agency does its work overseas, real neat, and no legal hang-ups.

And it’s a funny joke that the NSA is playing on itself, they’re collecting so damn much communication information that their running out of places to story the info. Maybe that is a ploy that the terrorists organizations are running on the NSA, to fill the airways with so much information that it ultimately breaks the agency’s ability to store it.

AND HERE’S THE BOTTOM LINE

The longer we allow governmental agencies to run their intelligence programs under the radar, the stickier the situation is going to get. Congress feels no need to protect the average citizen; the president’s office is, well…..closed, because it would me that the president would need to relinquish power, something that they never do.

This is a scary time in world history, and this time really is a wakeup call for American citizens, we  become aware, and then hold our elected officials and their appointed foot-solders to the fire of truth, or we lose…..it really is that simple.

Rights of privilege by our elected officials really has no place in how we practice government in the 21^st century. We either rise up and call a spade a spade, or we roll over in our beds of ignorance and forget what has made our country great…..individual freedom.

Our government eavesdrops even on our allies, and their anger is not surprising, nobody wants to be made a fool of. All of the rhetoric and posturing by governmental officials and agencies with regards to the reasoning behind this entire intelligence gathering is, if the issues weren’t so serious would actually be laughable.

We need to get involved before we are laughed right out of the community of man, danger lurks behind every door…..right, well maybe, but so what, let’s identify the danger, and then deal with it. Let’s re-examine our intelligence programs, and those people that have been entrusted to oversee its operations…..and start a house-cleaning!

HAVE A NICE DAY!