Peeping Sam and The Homeland Security State

I posted this primarily so you could get an idea
how many alphabet soup institutions there are
peeking into everything you do...so they say.

A host of disturbing and mutually reinforcing
patterns have emerged in the resulting new
Homeland Security State - among them: a virtually
unopposed increase in the intrusion of military,
intelligence, and "security" agencies into the
civilian sector of US society; federal-government
abridgment of basic rights; denials of civil
liberties on flimsy or previously illegal
premises; warrantless sneak-and-peak searches;
the wholesale undermining of privacy safeguards
(including government access to library
circulation records, bank records, and records of
Internet activity); the greater empowerment of
secret intelligence courts (such as the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act court) that
threaten civil liberties; and heavy-handed
federal and local law-enforcement tactics
designed to chill, squelch, or silence dissent.
...
While the army, navy and NORTHCOM naturally
profess to having no nefarious intent in their
recent civil-side forays, history suggests
wariness on the subject. After all, the pre-
Homeland Security military already had a long
history of illegal activity and illegal domestic
spying (much of which came to light in the late
1960s and early 1970s) - and never suffered
social stigma, let alone effectual legal or
institutional consequences for its repeated
transgressions.

Ur gummint is afeared of you else why would they
want to watch everything you do or say?

I don't give a shit what my neighbors do as long
as they're minding their own business.

Why would anyone think differently?

Like the nosey ol' biddy that we sometimes find
next door to us, I guess they ain't got anything
better to do.

If you don't dig the Homeland Security State, do
your best to thwart it. Of course, such talk, let
alone action, probably won't be popular - but
since when has anything worthwhile, from working
for peace to fighting for civil rights, been
easy? If everyone was for freedom, there would be
no need to fight for it. The choice is yours.

Well said, but what's to fight for?

Just exercise your freedom.

Read.