Alert! Alert!

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4th is not only president barrack obama's fifty second birthday, it is also, resumably coincidentally, a day of american middle eastern embassy shutdown due to fear of possible terrorist attack. No, we're not making all this up. All over the world, the american military is on alert, and american embassies arond the world are taking added precautions, due to highly reliable intelligence gathering which indicates a greatly increased risk of terrorist attack, according to the united states federal government, whatever that is. It could be the CIA, congresspeople, obama - who knows whose idea this terrorist alert/drill really is. If nothing else, its a good opportunity for the federal government of the united states to strut its stuff, to prove that all the wiretapping, eavesdropping, spying are worthwhile, that the american people really are in danger, and that the massive military security police state that has metastisized in america is not only worthwhile, but essential for our very survival. You almaost wonder why they are having us hide beneath our desks at school, or in our bombshelters at home. Americans currently traveling abroad are encouraged to keep their eyse open, to look out for themselves, to be safe, which must really be soothing to those americans currently traveling abroad, but as far as americans actually living in foreign countries, no mention about them. We really ought to have one of these every few months, only do it up right, with the kids beneath the desks, just like it was in the nineteen sixties during the cold war atomic bomb scare, and the rest of us either descending into, or digging new bomb shelters. If you're lucky, you might even live in a house with an old one hidden in the backyard, overgrown with weeds. Recent wurveys indicate that, for the first time, the american people think that the american government has gone too far in creating an intelligence gathering spy apparatus. The revelation that the feds spy on us all may have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Go figure. Still, though, at least forty percent of the american people do not have a problem with it. INcredibly, they just don't seem to care. Many among the masses seem to be sheep, placidly submitting to tyranny. Is up to the rest of us to care enough about our own freedom to fight for it, it seems.