I trust my goverment (?)

[misterx]

You are probably thinking to yourself, you know, MisterX hasn't posted anything of a paranoid nature lately. Is he starting to trust the American government?

No.
http://radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2008/05/government_surveillance_homeland_security_main_core_01.php

Comments

[nonspecific.livejournal.com]

You're right, that's EXACTLY what I was wondering. That and the previously asked question of how you did that white background around Storm in the picture you posted a week or two ago...

Give Into Fear And They Win

[walterwz.livejournal.com]

Your post started me reading. I forgot where I first saw this thread and posted one of my own.

What disturbs me most is the collective passivity to this. There was a good poem about the Nazi Era. This translation kind of sucks:

Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.

Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

Als sie die Juden holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Jude.

Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

[theemily.livejournal.com]

you crack me up!