Oct 10 2008
Now That’s A Shocker!
CNN is reporting that, over the past several years, the U.S. government has been spying on Americans' intimate conversations abroad. In particular, the report states:
A terrorist surveillance program instituted by the Bush administration allows the intelligence community to monitor phone calls between the United States and overseas without a court order — as long as one party to the call is a terror suspect.
Adrienne Kinne, a former U.S. Army Reserves Arab linguist, told ABC News the NSA was listening to the phone calls of U.S. military officers, journalists and aid workers overseas who were talking about "personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism."
David Murfee Faulk, a former U.S. Navy Arab linguist, said in the news report that he and his colleagues were listening to the conversations of military officers in Iraq who were talking with their spouses or girlfriends in the United States.
According to Faulk, they would often share the contents of some of the more salacious calls stored on their computers, listening to what he called "phone sex" and "pillow talk."
So lemme get this straight … on the one hand, we've sacrficed our civil liberties so the 'god fearing' folks in the Bush Administration could moniter our personal calls, emails, etc.; while on the other hand, a whole other set of civil liberties have been lost because those same nutjobs, in the name of everything holy, work to ban 'pornographic' material on U.S. goverment installations.
As a result, governmental personnel have now resorted to listening in on 'phone sex' calls smply to get their daily recommended allowance of porn. Umm … does that pretty much sum it up?
Does anyone else see the irony here, or am I taking crazy pills again?
Reading thru your post, in the firsts 2 lines I was already making conclusions… and I realized… well, we all have seen porn, not knowing who those involved in the scene were. So, if we just listen to third party phone sex on taped phone conversations…not knowing the parties and not seeing their faces, does it really make it unaceptable? does it really matter when the one who is listening doesn’t know who those on the phone are, and vice versa?
Not knowing the ones involved in the conversation, and not knowing the ones listening, makes it just another phone sex episode…that of course, more than one sick fuck in the CIA and FBI may have masturbated on… but, then again, if you don’t know it… does it matter?
Funny, I just smoked after 5 months without. All the sudden a lot of stuff started to make sense to me.
Umm … what? Just kidding, D … pass the Dutchie, mate.