Touch Tone Surveillance

Posted on May 12, 2006 in Liberty

I know you’re shocked — SHOCKED! — that George Bush is listening in on all your phone calls. Without a warrant. That’s nothing. And it’s not news.

This is: the snooping into your phone bill is just the snout of the pig of a strange, lucrative link-up between the Administration’s Homeland Security spy network and private companies operating beyond the reach of the laws meant to protect us from our government. You can call it the privatization of the FBI — though it is better described as the creation of a private KGB.

A nonfiction right out of Solhzenitsyn’s The First Circle! I wonder what names and what words I need to say. Are any of my friends on the list? Am I?

It isn’t “Big Government” that is to blame here. It is Big Corporation which has managed to privatize large sectors of our government and put it beyond our control.

For more information, read Greg Palast.