The Snowden revelations about the NSA have switched things up: Now, if you DON’T think the government is spying on you, you’re crazy.
A New Home for the Tinfoil Hat
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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The government has been reading my postal mail and tapping my telephone ever since the mid-1970’s after I returned from a 6-year stay in Germany! 🙁
Protester, rabble-rouser, organizer, outspoken & extremely critical writer (letters t’d editor; the occasional “guest editorial” – not to mention the blog-o-sphere.) Oh, yeah, I figure I’ve been on a coupla lists since at least Reagan’s stint as “president.”
In a way, the NSA almost makes me feel free. Why bother hiding any more? (Answer: because I make a hobby of taunting armed sociopaths (“Republicans”)) But hey, at least I don’t have to try to dodge the long dick of the law any more.
Any rube who proclaims that (especially in America) no government conspiracies are ever committed against a governed population is the new fantasist straw man (no brains). Anyway Ted, do you know just how hard it is to find REAL, radio-resistant tin foil nowadays? All aluminum substitutes are vastly substandard.
DanD
I was fine with the aluminum substitutes until I discovered that they work only when staple in place. (That was a real bummer!)
past tense = stapled (Damn! Where’s the “Edit” button? 🙁
> Where’s the “Edit”
Y’know I’ve decided I like the lack thereof – even tho I make a slilily typeoe once in a while.
It prevents people from going back and changing their posts after the fact. That’s kinda fun when somebody lets loose with a rant they later realize to be over-the-top.
OTOH, it’s a lot of fun when you ask some twit a bunch of numbered questions, they answer, then you go back and change the questions…
:: grinchly grin ::
An “Edit” button could permit a member an allotted number of minutes (say 5?) to correct typos; after that set time, no changes should be allowed. I could live with that; otherwise, I’m reduced to a follow-up post that takes up bandwidth and causes somewhat of a distraction. (As a former English teacher, it irks me to see that I’ve posted errors, in spite of my best efforts.)
How is it that CrazyH can post multiple times within 5 minutes and if I try to post more than once within that time I get told I’m posting too quickly? Ted, are censoring me?
I’m not important enough for anyone to be watching me.
Naw, I get that one once in a while, too. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with my actual posting rate – but rather the load on the server.
I don’t censor anyone, certainly not you.
I know, I was being facetious…I am not important enough to be censored. Nor am I important enough for “them” to be after me, or to have an FBI file or something like that.
@ Aggie_Dude –
” Nor am I important enough for “them” to be after me, or to have an FBI file or something like that.”
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Neither am I. I’m just a suspicious character who spent six years in Germany during the 1970’s and more than seven years in Mexico of late.
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They have to keep an eye on someone who spends that much time out-of-country, you know?
Just because people are *not* watching you doesn’t mean that you’re not paranoid ?…
Henri
@ mhenriday –
Or — Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean that they are *NOT* watching me! 😀
Please plug in your webcam.
Sincerely,
Not the NSA
Die Psychiatrie ist nicht so einfach…. 😉
Henri