As if anyone needed any additional evidence that America is
no longer a democracy, and no one really should, the FISA court, with the
support of Obama, just gave the NSA authority to crank back up its massive
surveillance program that the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently
ruled, and Congress agreed, was illegal.
How can an administration simply reject the court’s ruling
and the will of Congress? Because there’s no one to stop it. Not the law, not
the other branches of government, not the American people. Bush and Cheney
built a monster after 9/11 that rules with Sauron like powers from Ft. Mordor,
Maryland. For reasons that we can only guess at, Obama has bent over backwards
to give the NSA what it wants — access to everyone and everything.
In some areas, such as healthcare and civil rights, Obama
has pushed America forward despite massive resistance, but when it comes to the
post-9/11 surveillance state, he has been a public and private cheerleader of
the Orwellian overreach of our government spies. How can anyone take Obama
seriously when he talks about the rule of law or what an example American
democracy is to the rest of the world? He’s willing, even eager, to give our
spooks carte blanche when it comes to invading our Constitutional rights to privacy.
And the future looks no brighter. If anyone, Republican or
Democrat, other than Bernie Sanders wins the White House, and he’s a very, very
long shot, the surveillance state will continue humming along, collecting data
on you, me and everyone else on the planet. September 11, 2001 will be remembered for many
things, not the least of which is the creation of an all-seeing monster with the
ability to reach into everyone’s private lives, and no brave Frodo to stop it.
