New NSA theme song

[Arawn]

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-wh-nsawiretapping,0,1906650.flash

I'd laugh, but after hearing it, I may be in a lotta trouble.

[heystacy]

I thought it was funny. Now I'm nervous. ;)

[Samurai]

That was funny. No basis in reality at all, but funny.

[PatrickG]

That was funny. No basis in reality at all, but funny.

Yeah. Seriously. I don't think we've had privacy since WWII.

Personally, I'd like to see the world go back to that state where countries don't even keep track of everyone with files or photo IDs or registration numbers. That pre-modern state where federal government is just a big, distant thing that you can go your whole life without ever interacting with... and where local government is just a sleepy little minimalist entity that doesn't bother people who are basically nice to eachother.

I want the revival of the small town, the community, the general store. I could tolerate a bit of injustice in the world rather than have a complex legal code. I want communities to be run by the middle class and not centralized third generation wealth and I want the return of the citizen statesman.

"National security" gets in the way of all that.

[trickster]

Yeah. Seriously. I don't think we've had privacy since WWII.

Personally, I'd like to see the world go back to that state where countries don't even keep track of everyone with files or photo IDs or registration numbers. That pre-modern state where federal government is just a big, distant thing that you can go your whole life without ever interacting with... and where local government is just a sleepy little minimalist entity that doesn't bother people who are basically nice to eachother.

I want the revival of the small town, the community, the general store. I could tolerate a bit of injustice in the world rather than have a complex legal code. I want communities to be run by the middle class and not centralized third generation wealth and I want the return of the citizen statesman.

"National security" gets in the way of all that.

National security? Like they said in Watchmen: "Protection? Who are we protecting them from?"

Let's hear it from our friend Anarky:

You live in a democracy. You vote for your leaders.

So tell me – what happens if you want to disobey them?

Say you don’t like the President. You object to paying taxes to support him, his family, his pets, his bodyguards and the friends he wangled jobs for. What do you do?

Or say you don’t like your taxes being used to subsidize foreign arms sales for slaughter in the third world. How can you stop it?

Vote for somebody else, whose policy is the same? Don’t vote?

The government pretends to be there to serve you. In reality, it’s there to tell you what to do. If you refuse to obey, you’ll be investigated – arrested – criminalized. Your assets will be seized and given to the state. You will be jailed.