Fun and Games

THE LATEST EXCITEMENT is that president obama might be in charge of a huge intelligence gathering apparatus which collects massive amounts of information about millions of harmless american citizens, then does something mysterious with it, probably sits on it, or sifts through it looking for indications that some good american citizen or other is involved in terrorism of some sort, something subversive, some nefarious activity designed to undermine the sovereignty of the united states government.

The rumor - that's all it is at this point, though the washington post has apparent proof, and the national security admin. has admitted it - is that the feds take advantage of big internet companies like facebook, google, yahoo, aol, microsoft, and others, by accessing their information files, who themsleves gather a lot of information about people, consumers, and sell it to our ever present corporate industrial complex for purposes of advertising and marketing. We already knew that telephone records were being scrutinized, and snail mail tracked and opened.

Well, why not? Why not, and so what? Like, who cares? We all know, or should know, that here in the fun house, over a dozen government spy organizations run around doing their james bond thingie, all of which are now loosely organized under a cabinet level department of spying.

The fed gov operative who monitors this particular website is actually a pretty "spiffy" fellow; dressed in suit and red tie, adorned with lapel pin and dark sunglaees, he makes only a few calls on his cell phone, speaks softly, in a language or code incomprehensible, so, no harm, no foul!

People keep having the same ludicrous argument, over and over again. It goes something like this: I would rather have some corporate abuses, would rather be mistreated and exploited by big business, than by the government! (people often get really animated when making this supposedly profound comment). Doesn't anybody understnad that its all the same thing?

Since the era of the robber barons in the late nineteenth century, and before, those individuals and organizatons with big money have had access to, and control of, government institutions, including the american presidency. Now that the washington post has stolen a classfiied document and thus proven that a certain "operation prism" monitors millions of people.....so what? What else is new?
Stay in your assigned flock, fellow sheep, and we'll all be just fine.