The Lying "Terrorcrats"

"Terrorcrats" is a term used by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to describe the massive government surveillance apparatus.

That editorial noted that the Director of the NSA, a gent named Keith Alexander, stated to Congress fourteen times that the NSA does not collect information on Americans.

The chances that Mr. Alexander will ever be charged with perjury are less than the chances that Dick Cheney will be made a saint by the Catholic Church. Because if you are a terrorcrat, lying to Congress, lying to the American people is all part of the job. The reaction of pro-fascist legislators, like Sen. Lindsey Graham, shows that the Circus of Lies and Tyranny will only grow stronger.

During the various debates over gun control, a lot of my fellow liberals poo-poohed the famous Ben Franklin saying along the lines of those who give up liberty for security will end up with neither. Yet that is where we are going. We have been giving up our liberties, our freedoms, because we took two punches on one day a dozen years ago.

How free are you if, at the keyboard command (or the click of a mouse) of a faceless government clerk, all of your private electronic communications are there for perusal? How free are you if that clerk decides to start recording your telephone calls?

Twenty years ago, it was possible to drive from coast to coat and leave no electronic trail. But now, almost all of us carry trackers that can be used to find us. Our license plates are scanned automatically. Cameras are being networked by police departments.

We have been giving up our right to privacy, our right to be left alone. And we have done it without a struggle.

The Founding Fathers would be so proud of us.