...about the NSA revelations and the rightbloggers' quick change into civil libertarians. As with other conservative masquerades, the proof of the pudding will be in the legislating.
There are several amusing (well, he said self-deprecatingly, to me...) individual cases in the column, but I didn't add any by Jim Hoft because once you get started with that guy you just can't stop mocking. It's not just the clash between his former, fuck-rights-save-the-homeland ravings (2007: "No FISA- No Security... The Left blogosphere believes that allowing terrorists to communicate openly is the right thing to do") and his deep, new concern for the Fourth Amendment, nor even his credulousness toward the crazy ("NSA Whistleblower: Obama Took Down General Petraeus By Using Illegal Surveillance"); here he is claiming we were "warned" about Obama's tyranny by... Maxine Waters. Previously he had called Waters a "socialist" and described her as one of the "Rats Leaving [the] Sinking Ship" of the Obama movement -- in 2011. The inside of his head must be like a constant light show.
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"... I didn't add any by Jim Hoft because once you get started with that guy you just can't stop mocking."
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But, worth mentioning that no end of right-wingers were applauding Obama not all that long ago for perpetuating all the horrid and horrifying abuses begun in earnest by Little Boots.
Now that there's some real shit meandering around the mainstream, that gives them an opportunity to blame Obama, they're happily piling on, like all the Peanuts characters in a mound of fall leaves.
The bigger question, which they're even more happily avoiding, is that of what makes Presidents turn into even more rancid copies of E. Howard Hunt the moment they take the oath of office?
There's an institutional paranoia concentrated in fairly small parts of the government, mainly situated in Ft. Meade, Maryland, Langley, Virginia, in that big five-sided building in Arlington, Pennsylvania Avenue, D.C., and in the hallowed halls of Wall Street, that seems to take even the most expansive view of the Constitution and narrow it down to us against them (them being all American citizens except themselves, and the rest of friggin' world).
What the wingers won't say, and should, if they really want to come into the 21st century, is: "fuck me, these paranoid fuckers are more dangerous to us than the terrorists, and we really ought to do something about it."
But, they won't, because they're still stuck in a time warp, when authoritarians like G. Gordon Liddy and Ollie North make their little fourth-grade egos swell with pride (not to mention their penises), and the black man in the White House just makes them sad.
Obama is just as afraid of being seen as a wimp as the Elder Bush, and he's done some incredibly stupid and venal things because of that fear. He's taken the advice of thoroughly paranoid people. He's ignored the plain language of the Bill of Rights (c'mon, Barack, I know you understand the legal meaning of "shall" and "shall not").
But, he hasn't done anything any differently, when it comes to preserving the national security state, than any other President since Truman. (Except, in part, Kennedy, who just might have been offed because he didn't kiss the ass of a bunch of disgruntled Bastistas who got shorted on some mob money by Castro.)
If a Republican gets into the White House after the 2016 election, you can forget all of this whining about rights, because the crackpots will want even bigger crackdowns on the public--fuck `em, starve `em, make `em squeal lak pigs, because we're in charge agin.
They don't anything else, and they don't know any better.
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When one goes to "Connect Booz Allen," to send them a nasty note, there's this:
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Fuckers. They'll do anything for money, even sell out the people and the Constitution. If they're so goddamned patriotic, we ought to find out what they think of legislation barring war profiteering.
Watch `em scream bloody murder at doing what they're doing without profit.
Booz Allen regrets the fact that one of their employees, Edward Snowden, actually did something for the country.
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Watch us on Youtube? Just how bored and lifeless would one have to be to watch Youtube videos made by an MIC security firm?
ReplyDelete"Just how bored and lifeless would one have to be to watch Youtube videos made by an MIC security firm?"
ReplyDeleteFor the answer to that, I guess you'd have to ask their CEO....
Or their many former employees on the government dole right now.
And, another "oh, yeah," about Booz Allen. They not only want to profit off of the war on terror, they're also willing to defraud the government while doing so:
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These are the fuckin' jerks trying to pass themselves off as good patriotic corporate citizens.... I'll give `em this much--they're good fascists.
"Watch us on YouTube"???
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This surprises me (an FTE cog in the machine) not even a little bit. This was going to happen in a world where much of the government's IT support is contracted out, despite presidential attempts to overhaul the process.
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ReplyDeleteThey don't know anything else, and they don't know any better.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, they know exactly as much as they want to.
There's a split between righties who think Obama should be impeached for spying on Americans and those who think he should be impeached for not spying enough. They're coming together, but it's hard to imagine how the indictment will read.
ReplyDeleteIn this light, it's not so mysterious why the Old Professor and his commentors focus their rage on the fraudulent election.
"We must make certain these chilling dystopic totalitarian powers are very soon, for the good and freedom of the nation, put in the right hands."
ReplyDeleteI was thinking more along the lines of the sucking vortex of a black hole. Facts enter through the eyes or ears, but the matter inside Hoft's brain case is so dense that no reason or rationality can escape....
ReplyDelete...how can one brain hold such cognitive dissonance?
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ReplyDelete"Small government", of course, is anything done to maintain the privileges that he enjoys as a white male. As long as he doesn't get the bill for it.
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ReplyDeleteI used to attend these back in the day...the Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon laser light show was a perennial favorite. They'd project images onto the ceiling of the local university planetarium, some of them just groovy patterns and some of them blindingly obvious, such as a little bunny rabbit hopping for the line "Run...rabbit run..." What can I say; stoners are easily amused and when I was a teenager we didn't have any of that new-fangled MTV, and that's the way it was and we LIKED it that way!
ReplyDeleteI think back to those light shows and ponder the fact that the images in the one playing in Hoft's head are even MORE devoid of meaning than most of those in the stoner show.
The inside of his head must be like a constant light show.
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"Big Government" aids the 99% of us, the minorities and the poor folk. "Small Govt" serves the 1% hideously rich.
ReplyDeleteAnd Google Reader is being phased out over PRISM? One's choice of RSS
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Presumably the only reason Google would back out of its RSS Reader Kenyan Pretender Edition would be because of the public backlash, but the closure of Reader was announced well before the leak. Many months before.
Still, one of the best and most consistent features of wingnut paranoid ravings is that they don't let things like chronological order get in the way of a good narrative.
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