A major hallmark of democracy is the ability to criticize the Government and to take protest action against it. A democracy is driven by the people not by the leaders. That is what makes the spying scandal more outrageous the mere fact that the police, the leaders in society are spying on those people who drive the society. This really grinds me.
The second is the SIG. Set up post 9/11. WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS. It has been 7 years already. We cannot use one terrorist attack killing 3,000 or so people in a country on the otherside of the world to justify our local actions or international wars killing hundreds of thousands for the next century. The madness must stop now.
