Interesting article about the head of our NSA, Gen. Keith
Alexander, today in the Manchester Guardian, by Glenn Greenwald. If this stuff
is true, it provides yet more evidence of a totally out of control federal
agency. The NSA seems cut out of a sci-fi film . . . Dr. Strangelove comes to
mind. And Gen. Alexander seems to fit the mindset of that delusional doctor of
faraway sci-fi film-making. Every time I
hear something about the NSA these days, the report seems to concern something else
illegal, or borderline illegal that agency has carried out. The NSA makes the
CIA look competent, which is a really scary idea.
I realize that the paranoid-about-government crowd—the teabaggers
for example, are always making noises about the EPA, or the FDA, or Obamacare representing
an out-of-control federal government. But I do wish they would turn their
attention to the NSA, and maybe even the CIA. Now these are agencies that need to
be (metaphorically please) blown up, so we can begin anew to figure out how really
we need to protect ourselves from the “terrorists.” Frankly, I’m way more
scared of the NSA than I am of Al Qaida. Between our banking system that has
corrupted our global financial structure such that we are headed fast forward
to a two-class society, and the NSA that has assumed Big Brother status, our
entire democracy stands threatened—and I mean our entire democracy. I think we
are headed rapidly towards a second world semi-feudal society in which we are
regrowing the Lords of the Manor, so the rest of us can assume the position of
serfs, and our republican party cheers on the shift from the sidelines.
So, read on dear folks. The Greenwald article makes for good
scary bedtime reading.
And on that exoplanet Oz, Julian Assange didn’t quite make
it into the big time of Oz politics. Seems he was running for office, while
remaining safely locked away in his cubicle in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London.
Fancy that. The Aussies rejected him as
a serious candidate for political office. 
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