George W. McCarthy Bush

Alan Shore made a good point tonight on Boston Legal. Who ever writes that show loves Bush about as much as I do. Anyway, here is the point.

"The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism." Adlai Stevenson.

Replace communism with terrorism and there you go. In fact, read the whole speech in that manner and you will be shocked at how things have come full circle. Except this time, it is not the Soviets we have to fear, but the power hungry little fiend in Washington. You really must read this speech.

Where is our Adlai Stevenson? Where is the powerful voice calling out in opposition to this tyrant? Where is the political hero who will sacrifice his career for the American people?

It is a fact that the US has a big brother complex not seen since Hoover. Data is collected on all of us at a never before imaginable pace due to the advent of computers more powerful than ever before. Every movie, phone call, non-cash purchase, non-broadcast television show and web-site you visit or see is cataloged and put on file. The title and content of this posting probably sent a red flag to some desk jockey somewhere to heighten their attention on me. Think I am joking? Think they aren't watching? listening?

Go get your cell phone.

Go ahead.

Go to the Setting.

Go to location.

There should be a menu choice like E911 on, Location on, or something like that. Think about that for a minute.

GPS (global positioning systems) can find your exact location, down to a foot, from space by triangulating the signal time off 3 or more satelittes. A cell phone bounces off 3 or more cell towers to insure good reception and between different carriers towers. They can position you closer than a foot by your cell phone any time they want. Even when it is off.

Want more. Go to the bank and get a cash withdrawl. Fresh crisp new bills come out of a magic machine next to the teller. What they don't tell you is that the serial numbers on the bills are logged.

Speed trap cameras that capture license plates don't just capture the speeders, the record and log everyone to track movements.

Cameras roam the faces of specatators at sporting events looking for convicted or wanted criminals.

ATMs sniff your hands looking for illegal substances and explosives.

Believe it.

What will it take to end the madness? Another Rosenberg trial? Or will the American people rise up and say enough? Oh wait they can say that, it would be un-American. Just ask Bush.