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worried yet?

by John at 5/16/2006 11:47:00 AM

In case you can't tell, this spying stuff has got my hackles up like nothing else this year.1 There is something personal about knowing that the Bush administration, with the complicity of Congressional Republicans2, just doesn't care about the most basic provisions of the Constitution. The Libertarian in me (we aren't so different, Libertarians and liberals - except that Libertarians want to keep all the goodies for themselves) is screaming "Do something already!" but neither us of knows what can be done.

If for some reason you aren't worried yet, here's some stuff you might want to read:

The NSA is on the line -- all of them (salon.com)

GOP Senators block judicial review of NSA program (Glenn Greenwald)

and to lighten things up (and briefly revisit Kafka!)

Pretzel Logic
(Billmon)

Anyway, I'm sure someone out there will tell people like me that we shouldn't worry our pretty, little heads about all this stuff, and that we can trust Papa Bush this time, even though the last time we trusted him he gave us a black eye, emptied our savings account, pawned the silverware, and ran off with a floozy for a four month coke-and-Nyquil fueled bender. And, oh yeah, he also got tens of thousands of people killed in Iraq.

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1. Yes, of course, Iraq is a growing bloody disaster, but America has already mixed all the paint colors together over there and there is no way anyone can unmix them. Iraqis are just going to have to learn to like brown. Our bad.

2. Why does my "moderate Republican" senator Arlen Specter keep rolling over? Stand up for something you profess to believe in, man!
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