Getting Rid of Big Brother in America

GOOD PATRIOTIC AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE republicans like Speaker of the House John Boehner and presidential candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio believe in "smaller government". Or, they say they do. What they believe in is a more market driven, less cooperatively planned culture - lower taxes, fewer business regulations, fewer welfare programs - what they like to call "smaller government", as in "get the government out of your lives. Strangely, interestingly, both of these men, and many of their good patriotic conservative republican colleagues are in favor of extending the Patriot Act, and allowing the Nationsl Security Administration to keep right on monitoring all electronic communication in the country. How strange. If the government spying on everybody isn't "big government", what is? Boehner, Rubio, and folks like them claim that tracking every phone call made by every American is a great way to protect America from terrorism, and that if we stop the domestic spying on us all, dire things will doubtless happen. Sounds suspiciously like 1984 and Brave New World. We are living in a science fiction novel of a country, with big brother overseeing us, and many of our leaders applauding big brother. Obama's plan, of having corporations keep the spy records rather than the government, except when the government asks for them, is ridiculous, and an insult to our intelligence. As if that 'solution" would change anything. Let's stop the big brother routine, and take our chances with the terrorists.