LATEST SCANDAL JUST REINFORCES SUSPICIONS OF GOVERNMENT PRYING

First Walter Reed, then the US attorney firings over political pressures, and now this latest one: The FBI illegally misusing its powers granted to it by the equally nefarious Patriot Act to intentionally spy on Americans and pressure businesses to give up sensitive employee information--because they pose a non-existent threat to national security.

Many times in the past, I had been warning people that "absolute power corrupts absolutely", and very few have actually listened.

So now we have a government that delights in snooping and spying on its own citizens--either in open or in secret--and little is being done to clamp down the offending perps who have gone above the law and acted on their own accord. (Just because they think they can.)

And people have the gall to claim they feel "safe" because their government spies on them without warrants or reason to follow the laws set down before them in precedence?

I wonder just how many citizens were taken advantage of during the last 4 years that this activity had been going on?

Here's an example we can all chew on:

2 years ago, there was an article published on the 'net stating just how overwhelmed the FBI was by the millions of e-mails sifted from a supposedly secret data-mining program. A program which was supposed to only go after target suspects, but ended up sweeping in roughly 100 million people's public and private e-mails--some erroneously pegged as having links to terrorists.

As embarrassing as this incident was, it proved that the FBI then wasn't content to just going after 'persons of interests'.

Now it's going after innocent people and businesses--and abusing their power in the process.

Where will the buck stop?

Schuyler Thorpe

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