Both Ends Advocating

FINALLY, the shock seems to have worn off, and we americans are getting back to normal, now accepting meekly that our government spies on us. No big deal. Moving right along...The attention span of the average american citizen is, what....twenty seconds?When the uproar died down, as it did quickly, president obama came up out of his underground safe and surveillance bunker for a quick word of reassurance to the american people, aka "the masses" Your government is not spying on you, he crooned soothingly at us,lacking only the grandfatherly presence of a,say, ronald reagan. And even when we do spy on you, we can and by god will install "safeguards" adequate to the task of keeping the surveillence down to a dull roar, if even that....so comforting. so reassuring. I'm sure you feel better already, I know i do....snowden the snitch is no patriot, explains the president. ( he is to the people, but not the government, which are two entirely different things)....the people at large appear to have returned to their usual condition of blissful ignorance, uncconcerned that the government, through popular inattentiveness, is decling toward tyranny. Someone needs to find a sutiable way to point out to them (the masses) that there is no possible reason related to terrorism why the federal government wishes to monitor the masses closely other than to gain greater power and control over them, for purposes of comvenience and compliance, most likely. They'd be doing this even if everyone were walking around with a colt forty five strapped on. So much for the second amendment guaranteeing freedom. The first amendment does little good either, considering that most of us use it to discuss video games and reality TV shows. Even though we probably do not deserve what little freedom we have left, its worth advocating for. We might wish to consider getting back out into the streets, like the occupy wall streeters, only this time include the tea party conservatives, separated by an unpretentious but clrearly delineated line from the unwashed liberal hippie types. Both ends of the plitical spectrum demanding freedom, together!Conservatives want less government, right? So how can theny NOT be strongely opposed to the NSA? Freedon from Big Brother, which, after all, is as valauble a kind of freedom as any other.