The government is doing their job. Because we have sided with Israel and oil companies and have a huge military industrial complex to keep the Muslim world under what we consider control, we have for the last five or six decades pissed off the Muslims who can't fight us in a conventional war so they fight a guerrilla and terrorist war. So our government is monitoring our phone calls and internet activity looking for terrorist patterns. It should be no surprise given the circumstances. The media runs the story trying to frighten the salivating masses because that sells advertising. For the media and politicians, it's a wonderful thing. They can get lots of advertising revenue and do a lot of grandstanding without ever defining the issue. They can pretend it is about rights to privacy when it is really about a clash of cultures. We could roll over the Muslims if they didn't have the petrodollars fueling their resistance. We could ignore them and they would go away if we could get away from our compulsion to try to convert the Middle East into an American colony. But we don't, so the government looks at our phone and internet records and the media drools. They can have my records. We still have a semblance of a legal system and I really don't think they will be spending much time tracking my boring, tepid life. The threat to my life comes from the salivating masses who hire used car salesmen and robber barons (i.e. Democrats and Republicans) to handle my money. I believe the voters of this country will bankrupt me before the FBI knocks on my door and asks why I called LLBean at 3 in the morning.
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