Sometimes the Horror just washes over you.
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.
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.
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I like an article on fee.org called "the America we lost" and I read it every year with my students.
To your point, you are correct, it's horrifying and we need a revolution. I'm serious about that but I'm sitting in my backyard, with glass of wine and a raices cubanas. So no revolutions for the next 60 minutes please.
Fee art at http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/th...
Aloha, have fun
No, I value my privacy and work to remain as private as possible, but I'm sure I'm on somebody's list somewhere.
That is freedom. To be able to run wild, with no one watching.
This NSA BS is not for our own good, it is the government's way of keeping us scared, so we don't all ban together, and revolt against them. It is called Fascism.
The terrorists are coming in our southern borders now; if Obama cared about the good of the American people, he would not have opened the borders, and keep lying to us that they are secure.