Friday, May 12, 2006

Commrades, Prez GWB = the KGB


The NSA domestic call data collecting must just make the once forgotten Politburo's lil communist heart warm, eh? Face it Amerika, we have our very own KGB... courtesy of Prez GWB. Of course, Bush says that they only collect the data, but don't listen in. And you have established WHAT kind of credibility w/the American people on ANY issue HOW exactly, sir? Bush, if memory serves me, you insisted that the NSA was focused exclusively on international calls. "In other words," Bush explained, "one end of the communication must be outside the US." Oh, so that would mean that as a result of the NSA only spying on calls OUTSIDE the US to people IN the US, all domestic call records --those calls that originate and terminate within US borders-- are private, correct? Not in BushWorld. This means that your phone company (if you're a customer of AT&T, BellSouth or Verizon) tossed your privacy to the wind and collaborated w/ this extraordinary intrusion, and that it did so secretly and w/out following any court order. It'd be one thing if the NSA's massive sweep of our phone records was actually helping catch terrorists. But a leading practitioner of the kind of analysis the NSA is supposedly performing in this surveillance program says (via Defense Tech Org) that: "It's a waste of time, a waste of resources. And it lets the real terrorists run free." Hubby and I will be discussing what we can do about AT & T doing this to our phone call data w/our lawyer. If you've been a reader of mine for a while now, you'll remember that we have the best lawyer ever. During the Terri Schiavo debacle, we emailed him about amending our Living Wills to keep ANY member of a political party, religious group, or lunatic OUT of our last wishes, and our lawyer responded. Hubby and I are livid that we were never asked if our info could be freely given to anybody. We will be contacting AT & T. They already have a class action lawsuit facing them, so I expect to receive the professional run-around that may only be rivaled by Scotty the Lying Doughboy. If you are a Verizon customer, you might find this very interesting (sounds like a blatant conflict of interest to me). Hubby and I are considering answering every phone call like this: "FUCK George W. Bush, can we help you?" or my Hubby's pick: "The al Qaida House of Pancakes, can we help you?" And oh yeah... when we hang up, we'll make sure we say the proper Russian farewell: До свидания. And if you're feeling especially depressed about the KGB gift courtsey of GWB, please learn this Russian saying: Еше водки, пожалуйста. Say it often. Hint: Ask for Stoli's.
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