“…sadly a majority of Americans expect the government to own its citizens, their communications, their written and verbal commentary, their networks and friends, their very thoughts and imagination and dreams.

Many Americans seem willing to give away our fundamental humanity to empty bureaucrats, hated federal representatives and even employees of the widely despised IRS and TSA. They lie back and take it, so to speak. Being repeatedly raped in this way – invaded, owned, subdued and frightened – is not just what so many “law and order” types and state-loving neoconservatives advocate with a wink for prisoners in our many penitentiaries, it is apparently what they advocate outright for every man, woman and child in the country, every day.

Perhaps Americans don’t mind this daily rape by the state because they have become used to it, or perhaps, like abused wives and children, they feel there is nothing they can do – the state also supplies so much that they need, so they feel they must endure the bad side of being a citizen.

Perhaps they are afraid. At least what is being done today is survivable, endurable; perhaps what could happen may be worse. Clan leaders in Afghanistan justify their traditions as safer for women, and in their best interests. Curiously, that’s the same excuse given by the ruling goons in D.C.

Ron Paul is right. “The government does not need to know more about what we are doing.

We need to know more about what the government is doing.

We need to turn the cameras on the police and on the government, not the other way around.”

http://lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski295.html

Observe carefully how Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder justified what they had permitted to be done, as “protecting America”, despite the glaring absence of any connection with terrorism when they wiretap French defense ministers, German cabinet officials, and Italian politicians.

Did Mr. Holder or Mr. Obama promise to stop spying on you? Of course not. Why should they?

If he was truthful, Holder should respond, “We treat everyone’s rights with equal contempt.”

The EU should aspire to something more for its own citizens than the disrespect shown by the US Government for the American people and our constitution.