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Sunday, May 14, 2006

NSA Spy Scandal

This is the scandal that keeps getting worse. And worse. Remember what the President said when the first revelations came out? It's a limited program and no one is being spied upon unless they're helping the terrorists. Well we keep discovering he lied. What a shocking disclosure that is..... This is erious stuff to be lying about. Civil liberties aren't something to be violated and lied about. Without our fundamental civil liberties America isn't America.

If you're a customer of AT&T, Verizon or Bell South you've been spied upon by your government. The NSA is using your call records for data mining. I suppose this means we're all terrorists according to Bush. Remember, he said no one was being spied upon except those helping the terrorists. What a crock.

Here's the bad part. We can't trust our government. Can't trust it to tell the truth, can't trust them not to violate our rights, can't trust them to uphold the law. We can't trust them period. Now they're data mining your private, personal information. Perhaps tens of millions of Americans. Are you cheating on your spouse? Big Brother knows. Visiting porn sites on the web? Big Brother knows. Talking with that recruiter from your company's competitor? Big Brother knows. Big Brother knows all, sees all.

Not to worry though. You can trust Big Brother. Can you?

This is the Administration that ended democracy as we knew it.