Happy July 4th!

7/4/2013

This whole NSA spying scandal seems to get sillier every day. People are ‘shocked’ when they learn they are being spied upon, as if they didn’t already know this. (If they didn’t then they are incredible naïve, or stupid.) Senators and Congress people are appalled – yet they all knew and just kept it quiet. Now US allies are whining, “But we’re your friends…” It’s so pathetic. They knew. They have intelligence services, too. If those intelligence services didn’t already tell them about the spying, then their spies were not doing their jobs and should be fired! It’s like that scene in Casablanca when the Claude Rains policeman says to Rick: “I’m shocked to learn that there has been gambling going on in here.” And Rick says something like, “I’ll look into it. Here are your winnings.” Wake up, people – it’s not ‘1984’ but it might be ‘1983’ and a half! (If you get my meaning.) No matter what people do, how much they protest, how much they decry this betrayal of the 4^th Amendment, it’s not gonna stop. It’s never gonna stop. It just changes form. That’s what it has been doing at least since the end of World War 2. It’s a fact of life. Get over it. Happy July 4^th!