Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the NSA scandal has been turned from a government outrage against a fundamental aspect of Constitutional authority, to a personal story about the leaker. The magnitude of the offense to the Constitution’s provision, that citizens be secure in their persons, papers and possessions, is appalling. How are our personal phone records, who we call and when, any different than papers I have locked in my desk? Other than in means they amount to the same thing, a way to keep information. They are personal records for private use. Those who have so flippantly waved off this affair, along with the others, will have only themselves to blame when disaster strikes, and the machine they helped build is fully operational.
Most people who call themselves enlightened would act decisively when someone is caught breaking a law. Especially when that law is fundamental to our government. For example, if you or I were accused of embezzling, the police would act immediately and decisively. They wouldn’t call us and tell us we have been accused of embezzling. Accepting our pledge that we won’t do it again and we go right back to handling the books. That would be absurd. But that is exactly what we are doing in the NSA spying scandal. Letting the people, caught red handed, walk, on their personal recognizance that they won’t ever use the illegally got information politically, criminally or unethically. Despite the IRS scandal where they did that very thing!
Instead, the media and government have turned the scandal about government overstepping it’s Constitutional bounds, into a crime drama. Where is he now, where will he go next, every question is being asked, but the important ones. Instead of what airport the leaker is hold up in today, what about how high the knowledge about this program went? What about looking into deleting the information from government computers? If there is a pressing need in the future, the information they claim they need, is stored on Phone company computers. Get a warrant and do it Constitutionally.
By making it about the leaker and not about the leak the unbiased media are covering up for the Obama administration again. This has become a theme for the unbiased media. Cover for Biden’s gaffs and Obama’s mishandling of… whatever he is handling today. Fast and Furious wasn’t even a blip on the radar to the unbiased American media. The Latino media however did a good exclusive about it. Perhaps because so many Mexicans died, as a direct result of this attempt to undermine the Second Amendment, or maybe they were just doing the jobs Americans just won’t do. Benghazi, where even an Ambassador died, was given a weekend then given a good letting alone. If it hadn’t been for the leakers the whole thing would have been forgotten with the unbiased press’ help. Then there is APgate, but we can’t forget IRSgate, although the unbiased media want’s us to. As I said in a previous blog, the unbiased media should read the story of the frog and the scorpion, it might save a nasty sting.
Clearly the American people have become inured to scandal, toughened to corruption and trusting of propaganda… probably not a good sign. This type of incessant scandal and political corruption is more indicative of a Third World country than a First World Superpower. But, history has many lessons for us, if we only open our eyes to them. The complete degradation of the people is always the last step before the collapse of the civilization. How much more degraded can we get than to be immune to the obvious putrescence we live in? Elitist thinkers have posited that no fall is ever sudden, there are always a series of events that led to that fall, events that were ignored. Since we are not ignoring them… One answer would be a Fourth Branch, but, perhaps that will be work for another generation, one that builds, not destroys.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
