Finding Out

THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) is a rather new concoction, a general coverall for all the many other United Security-States of America (USSA) spy agencies, of which there are at least sixteen, and possibly as many as several million. Belatedly, albeit brilliantly, people began to realize that if the CIA and the FBI are spending more time trying to sabotage each other's projects in order to achieve domestic security supremacy for their respective agencies than trying to defeat america's enemies, it isn't really doing the nation as a whole much good. So, thanks to the NSA, we all work together now, sharing information, bullets, tape recorders, personel, and working harmoniously to defeat america's enemies, and protect her from whatever may be out there, or in here, lurking, wanting to destroy her, if anything. (Can't we all just get along?) To celebrate, the NSA is planning to construct, or perhaps has already begun constructing,a huge, fancy new building complex way out in the middle of the nevada desert, or somewhere in the middle of nowhere. The estimated cost will be eight billion americano dollarinos. For that kind of money, they'd better have "wet wipes" in all the restrooms, including visitors, and wet bars in every administrative office. Sounds kind of like one of those "area 51" kind of deals. Top Secret, probably most of the elaborate stuff deep underground, barbed wire fences, armed guards, search lights, black helicopters, the whole shootin' match. (Its more fun that way.) The other day a rather smug, officious sounding gentleman did an interview on National Public Radio during he said something truly alarming. What he said , basically, is that "we are building it big because we can." Honest to goodness, that's what hot shot said! "We", meaning the "agency", is building it big....because "we can....if that don't either anger or scare the crap outta you, nothing can or will. The smugness. The arrogance. The lame attempt at humor. And the implications. The terrfying implication that the united states has indeed become such a national security state, dominated by a military industrial security complex, that money is no longer an obstacle to any project having to do, ostensibly, with that vague concept "national security". The american people sending their enormous tax money down an endless black hole so that their own government can engage in the purely tyrannical practice of closely monitoring their lives. We have come full circle, and we the people are indeed sheep, made so by our own indolant failure to resist tyranny. It is now fashionable in america, during casual conversation, to say that one is doing something because one "can", and everytime someone says something like this, it is intended to be not only funny, but a glib proclamation of power. Are we really crying out about our lack of individual power? But this out of control government surveillance apparatus we have in america is nothing to laugh about. Who knows what technology is being developed, way out in the desert, deep underground, among the dead aliens and their machines, for future use in keeping track of, and thus controlling us the people. Somehow you sense that we'll find out, though, soon enough.