I know as a kid I used to play 2 v. 2 in baseball in our yard with ghost players. Other than that I never had a rotisserie league or played except in college. We were all lefties, name of Lefties, Inc. and we won the league because no-one showed up to play us. We were not good on the field.
Today, the people who run the NSA, probably the largest intelligence gathering agency in the world, and their boss, the ever-intimidating James R. Clapper, the boss of all bosses, lets his people take in all the information they can, anywhere, on anyone. Forget about terrorists, they want to know what people on a cattle ranch in the middle of nowhere are doing every moment of the day. Probably so they can be glad they’re not bringing the cattle in for a herd check and vaccinations so they can sit behind their grand Washington, D.C. desks and spy on us.
They’re reading this right now so should know the only thing I am concerned about is our privacy. What about the privacy of US citizens just going about their daily lives? Why are you photographing our license plates at every intersection and photographing our movements as we walk our dog or child? Walking to the grocery store. Going to a ball game. Riding a bike on a public trail. Why are we all under surveillance?
I got the idea for this because it’s front page news in the NYTimes but no-one seems to care. They seem to care more about A-Rod and performance-enhancing drugs.
This is our lives, readers. We have to stand up to this useless surveillance, spending billions of our tax dollars to watch someone buy Huggies. Perhaps the privacy advocates have not made it easy for people to fight this, but write in to your local newspaper. Talk to people. Write congress. Thanks, Dee
Cooking with Dee 