Cross posted on Daily Kos
Sun Dec 18, 2005 at 08:25:30 AM PDT
My door is wide open. I’m waiting. I’m ready and I’m not scared.
I call Europe all the time. I email Europe all the time. I guess this might make me an enemy of the state.
I’m only scared of a few things. I’m scared that still the American people seem brain dead.
I’m scared that still plenty of Americans think George Bush is a good president.
I’m scared that still the Democrats are making nice with a tyrant.
I’m scared that the Democrats refuse to still call this president what he is: incompetent, a war criminal, a man unworthy of his job, a man who has announced to the world that he is above the law.
I’m scared that the American people see little or no leadership from the Democratic Party. This may be my number one fear.
I’m scared that the tyrant isn’t named Saddem Hussein. The tyrant is named George W. Bush.
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I’m scared that the New York Times withheld from the American people information that may have affected the outcome of the election.
I’m scared that we put political hacks into jobs at FEMA and the political class turns a blind eye. I’m talking to you, Joe Lieberman.
I’m scared that our children are not being properly educated.
I’m scared that many Americans may freeze this winter because they will not be able to pay for home heating oil.
I’m scared that our troops in Iraq still don’t have the proper body armor.
I’m scared that Mr. Alito may waltz onto the SCOTUS because the Democrats still refuse to have a facedown with our unelected president.
I’m scared that 46 million Americans go without health insurance and access to basic healthcare.
I’m scared that politicians from both parties refuse to level with the American people.
I’m scared that the American Taliban are running our government.
Am I scared of George Bush–you bet. I’m scared of cowards masquerading as Top Gun heroes conning, deceiving and scamming the American people.
But Mr. Bush, I’m not scared of creepy Al Queda monsters lurking in the shadows.
I’m really scared of unelected presidents though.
Friends, forgive me, but I’m back in 2000 again.
I saw the door was open so I thought I’d come in, sit down and hang out for a while, if that’s ok.
You’re about to get an enema and an invitation you can’t refuse to the Gitmo Ball.
Any chance that enema might be optional? If government is our friend, with friends like these, who needs enemas?
ba-dump-ching
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I bow humbly in the presence of such talented writers, The diaries are excellent.
If NSA is watching 😉 and reading we just might get some to come back to the fold when they read our concerns, unless of course those who work for the NSA are outsourced ‘citizens’. Because a real American would feel extremely upset that America is no longer the land of the FREE! and could not honestly with good conscious work for such an organization.
They said “Ok.”
There are at least 2 companies in a foreign country that have handled the monitoring capability and nearly all of the billing data for the telecom industry for several years.
Besides logging every communication event, the recording aspect works both ways and allows for a back door access to all surveillance.
Fox News’ Carl Cameron did a good 4 part investigation that was disappeared quickly.
These companies and others aggressively market surveillance services for telecom industry and governments as well as ISP/tech CALEA requirements.
I accepted this years ago and put my hope in the ability of the proper agencies having the integrity to discern between dissent and threat. There’s nothing wrong this technology as long as it’s not abused.
I read somewhere that all online messaging software is also directed through central servers and surveilled. I believed that before I read it.
The Amdocs company does most of the call records and billing data for the US.
Their website is http://amdocs.com
There is a deep tragedy when a program such as a Stargate can be laughed at when I cite the link from Rense or dismissed and ignored even when the cite comes from the company’s own advertising.
Imagine the laughter too when I try to discuss the wavering allegiances of the individuals who own the patents to this technology. Well, it’s generally more silence than laughter, but you know what I mean.
I wish that US had made different choices, about a lot of things, long ago, recently, and right now.
But that did not happen, and while the price might seem high to you or me, I have to accord them the respect of assuming that they did not make these decisions lightly, but in full knowledge of the consequences for themselves, their children, and their children’s children, and concluded that, it is all, in the words of former Secretary of State Albright, “worth it.”
There is an old American saying, “you can lead a horse to google, but you can’t make him think.”