The Best Surveillance That can be Imposed on Americans is Already in Place. Is This the Land of the Free? It is Apparent That Big-Brother Now Sees Everybody All the Time.

Why is the United States so obsessed with what the best surveillance methods are? Why, for the entire duration of U.S. history, including the Vietnam War and the entire Cold War, was it not necessary to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens?

Why are we told that a ragtag army of wild and obsessed militant Islamic suicide bombers require every American suspect to be under constant suspicion? Why are our public places now similar to giant detention cells?

Why do the tiniest towns in the remotest parts of the remotest states now have surveillance cameras in parks and roadways?

Why is technology such as CCTV that was always used to discourage petty theft in drugstores and supermarkets now used liberally in public places?

Why is the U.S. government using good tax dollars to give grants to just about any town hall in the United States that asks for it to buy surveillance equipment?

Why are companies that manufacture the best surveillance equipment making fortunes during a recession?

Why was Bush not impeached when it was found that the DNI was conducting illegal surveillance in defiance of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the U.S. Constitution?

Why was the FISA, which was originally drawn up in 1978 to legitimize the dubious surveillance practices of the Nixon administration, modified and re-modified, until it is now alright for the authorities to spy on anyone on American soil without permission?

Why has the Supreme Court never found the FISA Act lacking, despite court challenges that claimed it was clearly unconstitutional?

Why did the U.S. Congress approve the 2008 amendment to FISA that let telecommunications off the hook, making them immune to litigation if the government co-opted them into spying on people in America? What is a terrorist?

Who are the so-called terrorists that the U.S. government says it is trying to catch by spending billions of dollars on the Department of Homeland Security and the best surveillance that money can buy?

Why has the U.S. government not caught a single terrorist since 2001?

Why do over one million bureaucrats and others in the pay of the State think that conducting the best surveillance, electronically and otherwise, is an acceptable practice?

Why are the safeguards in the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution not echoed in legislation such as the FISA, the Patriot Act and the myriad directives and measures introduced in terms of the Homeland Security Act, which was passed in 2002, following the horrific events of September 11, 2001?

These are questions that the American people must have answered if the Constitution is not going to be further violated to the point that it is no longer relevant to the Union, and the Union and itself dissolves.

Is Google Earth too Invasive?

Americans also need to be persuaded that Google Earth and its derivatives and systems that include it in the attempt to create the best surveillance systems do constitute a constitutional violation.

By paying a fee to Google, anyone can use Google Earth to zero in on roadways, properties, etc. in most American towns and cities.

On your PC monitor, in real time, you can see children raking lawns and you can even see people through windows. That is the kind of detail we are talking about, and it clearly an invasion of privacy.

It should be worrying to the American people too that Google makes use of satellites belonging to the U.S. government, which makes them the property of the American people.

Wasteful Spending

Countless billions of dollars are being spent on ensuring that the American people are spied on by the government with the best surveillance equipment, and all the signs indicate that spending is set to increase under the Obama administration.

Obama has already stated that what the U.S. needs is a civilian security force, which should be as powerful as the Department of Homeland Security!

The DHS already costs the U.S. taxpayer $50 billion per year. The budget document for 2009 numbered over 3,500 pages!

If the civilian security force were to cost another $50 billion or so each year, paying American citizens to spy on other American citizens, then there is no telling where such spending will end–by a government that is technically bankrupt.

Can the U.S. Afford it?

Of course the U.S. cannot afford to spend this kind of money spying on its own citizens. The U.S. government owes so much money that there is no way that it could ever repay the principle.

The majority of tax dollars that are collected each year go just to service the debt!

It is probably because it has lost control of the U.S. purse strings (its power over the balance sheet has deteriorated steadily since 1913) that the presidency, the Congress and the government machine feel inclined to declare the American people as the enemy.

If the American people knew what they knew, they would boot them out of the Washington.