Originally published February 21 2006
NSA spying program puts much more than personal privacy at risk, columnist says
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
At rense.com, David Lindorff reframes the arguments surrounding the NSA spying program.
This administration is attempting to establish totalitarian control, and has proved that it is not to be trusted with the Constitution.
Now that we know that President Bush, through the misuse of secret executive orders, authorized the super-secret National Security Agency to monitor domestic phone and Internet communications without any involvement of the courts, it's time to recall Admiral Poindexter and his Total Information Awareness project.
TIA was officially dumped when word of it leaked out, particularly because of the unsavory history of the man put in charge of it.
This is where Bush's so-called "War on Terror" has been taking us.
Every inch of the way, as new steps towards totalitarian control are proposed or introduced--things like John Ashcroft's Operation TIPS citizen spy scheme, Poindexter's TIA, a national ID card, or a chip in everyone's passport--a cry has gone up from the public, left and right, and the administration has publicly backed off.
But then after the furor dies down, they've gone ahead and done it in another, quieter way--a smaller version of TIPS, uniform state drivers licenses that will be a national ID in all but name, and a supposedly less invasive chip in new passports, etc.
Some members of Congress, sensing the public's unease, are starting to make a fuss.
They'll do more if the American public starts to really get angry at what is being done to traditional American freedoms by the White House gang, but only if we all start making it clear that we've had enough.
The real threat to America and to Americans is not some radical religious zealot with a bomb, but a gang of power-hungry politicians bent on making their control in Washington permanent.
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