Living In Our American Police Spy State

AS OF NOW, the first of June, the United States of Apparatus, as in "intelligence gathering", is still in full swing, very much in business, as the U.S. Senate debates whether to put its official seal of approval on the national security surveillance police state, which it most surely will, within the week. Either the National Security Administration has unplugged the spyware until the matter is officially resolved, or it hasn't, your guess is as good as anyone's. They say they have, quite naturally. And if the National Security Administration and the American government can't be trusted, who can? And really, whatever Congress says, George Orwell's "1984" is here to stay, as the corporate states puts the finishing touches on its efficiently plutocratic oligarchy. Obama is totally down with it. No problem for him. Let the big boys run free and wild. Ditto Hillary, and just about all the Republicans. Let our science fiction electronic master thrive! Only Bernie Sanders and the brave Rand Paul are fighting against it. The rest of us don't seem to care, one way or another, just as, you may remember, in those two great weirdly prophetic nineteen thirties science fiction novels "Brave New World" and "1984", nobody cared about being a powerless cog in a great, seductive machine. The United States of Aggression has been at war with somebody or other since December 7, nineteen "fordy" one (FDR), our day of infamy. We the U.S.A. have been a national security state, since the passage of the national Security Act around 1950. Always fully armed, always at war, always with the masses passive, well under control. Always looking for those often annoyingly absent terrorists, who lurk just around every corner. And now, thanks to the imminent renewal of the Patriot Act, and Executive Order 12333 or whatever, our corporate masters know exactly what we're doing, every minute of every day, and evidently that is not going to change for a long time, if ever.