Well, I’ve done some stupid things in my life, said some stupid things, supported some stupid causes, but that was then and this is now and I’m glad I grew up and came of age at a time when it was rather unlikely that the government was listening in on all your phone conversations, when you could speak a little more freely about your secret plans to overthrow the government and stuff like that.
But, those days are gone forever. Bush, under pretenses falser than the Gulf of Tonkin incident, was given unlimited powers to spy on people and Obama, who we had naively hoped would cut that bullshit out, has apparently decided that he rather likes having dictatorial powers.
Of course, he’s very cool about the whole thing, like “Chill, dudes, nobody’s listening to your stupid phone conversations,” but I don’t really believe him. I’m not sure I believe the other side, either, that they are monitoring millions of people, because they don’t really have the manpower for that. Nobody has the manpower for that.
That’s the only thing that’s going to save us: the fact that there are billions of people every day posting random bullshit on the internet and no government can go through it all…in fact, the people posting photos of their cats sitting in a box or what they had for dinner are actually running interference for us. Same with phone calls. 90% of them are “I’ll be there in 5 minutes.”
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They are watching, but they can’t see everybody at once
t wouldn’t even matter at this point if some anti-government spying bill went sailing through congress and was signed by the President, neither of which is going to happen. Facebook has all our info, because we’ve given it to them. They even know what we like.
I should be more outraged by this than I am. It’s a changed world.
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