Quaint morality concepts

Glenn Greenwald elucidates some ideas about our society that have been coagulating in my thoughts for a while.

He writes quite well:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/09/25/secrecy/index.html

Jason Ditz examines Obama's latest court filings:

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/09/26/justice-dept-assassinations-up-to-executive-branch-not-courts-to-decide/

... Justin Raimondo explains the reasoning behind recent FBI raids:

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/09/26/the-obama-boomerang/

You can be sure that our government is involved in similar acts and plans. There are many in CSIS who drool over the possibility of getting at the RIM database discussed here:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/09/27/privacy/index.html

You should all feel safer after reading all of the above. Do you not?

... and the winner is ...

Not us:

http://original.antiwar.com/roberts/2010/09/24/it-is-official-the-us-is-a-police-state/

I hope those who support gov't power will be happy with their choices.

Here's the overseas version of this process:

http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/2025-murderers-cowards-morons-and-thieves-portrait-of-an-empire-in-a-political-season.html

Be goood or they'll getcha!

Here's an article from Forbes, catering to my well developed sense of paranoia:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/09/15/intellectual-property-copyright-opinions-columnists-jason-ditz.html?partner=yahootix

It seems that gov'ts are quite creative in finding new reasons to thump you if they see fit.