Those Quakers are a scary bunch of people and the Government just can’t get rid of its obsession with them. The Religious Society of Friends, as the domestic group is also called, does a lot of suspicious things, like raise money to help the poor disaster victims of the world and to promote the idea of peace and non-violence. Perhaps it’s not just their overt Christian behavior; perhaps it’s those Quaker Oats in that distinctive cylindrical container that just might be a weapon of mass destruction, or maybe it’s the puffed rice. It’s shot from cannons, you know.
The Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore, a Quaker-linked peace group, has been monitored by the NSA working with the Baltimore Intelligence Unit of the Baltimore City Police Department. According to a lengthy article at Raw Story, they are keeping extensive dossiers on participants and the license numbers of everyone coming and going at their headquarters. NSA officials even reported on the balloons being inflated for a 2004 demonstration and the content of their signs as well as the contents of their vehicles. Never can tell what those damned Christian pacifists will put in a balloon – could be anything. The bottom line is that anyone who questions the Tyrant Bush must be an enemy and you know what we do to enemies of the State.
Of course the NSA's United States Signals Intelligence Directive 18 strictly prohibits the interception or collection of information about "U.S. persons, entities, corporations or organizations" without explicit written permission from the Attorney General, but that was when we were a government of laws.
But none of this is new, what’s new and what’s frightening is that some 40% of us don’t see anything wrong in the Government reading the mail, listening in on the calls, hacking our e-mail or stringing us up by the thumbs for as long as they like and all without due process or court supervision.
230 years ago, we declared ourselves independent of King George and used public outrage against just that sort of activity to spur revolutionary fervor. Today, we can’t wait to have King George spy on us and photograph us through our windows. Safety first.
Since 1660, the Religious Society of Friends has been looking for a place to practice their faith. They thought they had found it in America.
2 comments:
Support King Crankyboy. I'd be a benevolent dictator.
Dictator, Dick Cheney - it's all the same.
Only about half of us are afraid of a tyrannical, fascist government despite of all the idiotic talk about freedom and democracy. Half of us would sell our birthright for a ten dollar tax break. As Noah Webster said:
"Give people the power, and they are all tyrants as much as kings. They are even more tyrannical; as they are less restrained by a sense of propriety or by principles of honor; more under the control of violent passions, exasperated by envy and hatred of the rich; stimulated to action by numbers; and subject to no reponsibility"
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