Just had a thought wash over me.
Nothing new here, no new info or sudden insight.

Just a dawning awareness of the magnitude of a thing.

Isn't it funny,
after decades of dire warnings,
from both sides of the political spectrum,
about the threat and horror of Big Brother Watching You...

Isn't it funny,
that when Snowden SHOWED US that HE ALREADY WAS(!)...

that our collective response was - a yawn.


Even amongst our own.

John Stossel - one of my favorites - was concerned but not overly so. It didn't even make his list of "100 Things I Hate About Government"
(Yesss, Stossel is a Libertarian not an OBJ, but he's still a proponent of AR and a voice for Freedom. And the closest we have to a voice in the Mainstream)

And I'd bet a dollar that several folks here in the Gulch, perhaps even self-professed OBJ's, do not believe in an inalienable right to privacy.

A right on a par with the right to bear arms or the right to freely associate.

The right of an honest person to be left alone.


It just kinda hit me.

The Big Brother scare is over.
We'll never hear the warning again.

It came and went.

And we didn't care.

Because it was for our own good.