Jefferson, the NSA and domestic spying


The further we get into Bush's second term the worse things get. With this week's revelation of domestic spying on US citizens by the Pentagon's NSA [report by Counterpunch ] Bush's crimes are fast approaching Nixonesque proportions. Jefferson denounced similar government misbehaviour in his Kentucky Resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 when Pres. Adams over-reacted to the "threat" of supporters of the French Revolution in the young republic. Jefferson denounced the US government as a tyranny which wanted to rule the people with an iron rod. What on earth would he call the actions of the US government today? American colleagues only today were beginning to get agitated at Bush's crimes - it seems the killing of over 100,000 innocent Iraqi lives since the war began count for nothing, not to mention the illegality of launching a war of aggression. In their view the only tyranny worth worrying about is domestic tyranny. Only American liberties are worth worrying about it seems.

The further we get into Bush's second term the worse things get. With this week's revelation of domestic spying on US citizens by the Pentagon's NSA [report by Counterpunch ] Bush's crimes are fast approaching Nixonesque proportions. Jefferson denounced similar government misbehaviour in his Kentucky Resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 when Pres. Adams over-reacted to the "threat" of supporters of the French Revolution in the young republic. Jefferson denounced the US government as a tyranny which wanted to rule the people with an iron rod. What on earth would he call the actions of the US government today? American colleagues only today were beginning to get agitated at Bush's crimes - it seems the killing of over 100,000 innocent Iraqi lives since the war began count for nothing, not to mention the illegality of launching a war of aggression. In their view the only tyranny worth worrying about is domestic tyranny. Only American liberties are worth worrying about it seems.

Posted: Tue - December 20, 2005 at 09:46 PM        

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