How many times...

Oh for christ sakes. He's guilty! How many times do we have to go through this dance. Reporters find out more information on the domestic spying program, and the President says he didn't do anything wrong. A quasi-bold Senator proposes censure, and the president and his party say he did nothing wrong. The President nominates the guy that oversaw the program to be the DCIA, and we're suppose to believe the President did nothing wrong?

The rule of denial is, the more you deny, the guiltier you are. It's pretty simple. Remember Clinton? "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," over and over, and he was guilty. That's how we knew he was guilty. Personally I didn't care, and if that was the problem here, I wouldn't care either. It doesn't have anything to do with my civil rights, or the day to day ability to perform the duties of the Presidency.

This is serious, it's a domestic threat to the American way of life, and I for one can not believe that the people and the press are going to just sit back and wait for something to happen. To me this is the single most obvious example of how al-Qaeda wins it's battles. Doesn't the President say they hate us for our "freedom." Well, what could they be happier with than an American President curtailing the individual freedoms of the American people, or more importantly, the American people willingly giving those right up.

The far right can bitch and moan all they like, but we are a nation of laws. It's what makes us different. We don't live by the God's law (we do if we chose, but it is a choice...and a valid one if that's you thing), we have our own set, and the law is clear on what you can and can't do in regards to data mining.

There is more: all of this corporate conglomeration, the undoing of regulation, and essentially the elimination of anti-trust law is coming to a head here. This is real, honest to God, fascism. The good old Italian kind. Our government has become so intertwined with business that the line between the two is gone. The phone companies are in violation of the privacy agreement that they make with us, and that we don't read. It is absurd.

We are losing the war on terror, and we are being defeated by our own government. I don't know if we can hold out until November. I don't mean to seem defeatist, but I have so much anger and fear - and I don't get scared - that I'm coming to the end of my rope. Where are our real leaders? I don't care if they are Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, help! Help us, please! In the mean time, switch your service to Quest if you can.

And furthermore: How can a President with a 31% approval rating get away with this? He's two points from Nixon during Watergate!