Robert Block at bobby.block@wsj.com, wrote an article at the Wall Street Journal about US Defense spy satellites being turned toward the people of the United States. Perhaps this is not really a new phenomenon. I suspect that in the past it was done without asking and without anyone knowledge. Now unchecked spying by the government is legalized. There is a trend of legalizing misconduct that is justified by what a small elite believe is the greater good. If you think I am just a paranoid conspiracy theorist do your own reading, find out for your self don’t take my word for it. Start here: http://www.themoneymasters.com/order.htm#books

If I am not mistaken abuse of government power is one of the reasons that the original 13 colonies in America rebeled against the British Empire. They were paying taxes but had NO say in what was going on in England or even on their own land: “Taxation without Representation.” The founding fathers were so serious about guarding against the unchecked power of government that they created the 2nd amendment, right to bear arms:

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”

Now we face abuse of power on an entirely different level, but abuse of power all the same.

Liberties are given away wholesale with NO regard for the Constitution. As a security person, I appreciate national security, but NOT at the expense of liberty. At the very least programs that spy on the people should have checks and balances. But there are no organizations dedicated to protecting privacy and liberties with the same level of influence as the executive branch, CIA, and NSA.

The neo-conservative view of going to war to “protect our freedoms” is only valid if there is freedoms left to protect. Make no mistake, I am no liberal who wants to create bigger government to help the poor and less fortunate. I just don’t trust the government enough to give them more power than they already have. Government should be small and managed by the people, not the other way around.

I fear that humanity has created a very efficient system whose function (regardless of what it says) is to exact total control over its heard of consumner citizens.

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
–Benjamin Franklin, letter to Benjamin Vaughn, March 14, 1783