Re: In today's news...
Took them long enough to make it official.
While you might not think it, the US government has been doing what it wants whenever it wants (when someone with $$$ tells it to) for a long time. The only change will be that they don't have to be quiet about it any more. While the 'War on Terror' has been the most recent justification of such, this has been going on forever.
And realistically, all you have to do is openly disagree with what they're doing and they can lock you up and throw away the key, or worse.
Truth be told, I don't blame the politicians, the wealthy or the influential. I do blame the mindless masses. Eat the shit you're fed long enough and your masters will find something worse to feed you. But the fault doesn't solely lie with them, unfortunately our society has been doomed to fail for quite some time. Simply put, humans aren't ready for the technology we have. Some 53 years ago the intergrated circuit (Micro-chip) was invented and hurtled our technological advancement forward at an unprecedented rate. In those 53 years our technology has advanced faster than it had in the past what? 200? 300 years?
How does this tie together you ask? You won't be asking when they stop bothering to pretend you actually have any privacy, by using the GPS tracking that comes standard with your car or cell-phone to track you, or monitor what you're saying, and just implant a chip on your forehead. And fuck, why not have a kill-switch for it to save them the effort of sending their cronies to track you down and 'detain' you.
I could go on forever, but I imagine you don't really want to hear this so I'm done.
