But we were told by the government defenders right here in these very forums that the NSA is not sharing information with law enforcement - because the NSA said they're not.
When will we wake up - and I mean us here who supposedly have our guards up?
Didn't I see a sig here quoting someone else here about how when you think someone can't be any more stupid they prove you wrong? When we think the government could do no worse to us, they prove us wrong. There's very little, or possibly nothing, that I would not believe bad about what our government will do to its own people.
The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
Sometimes the left directs the right and the right goes along. Sometimes the right directs the left and the left goes along.
I can't wait for the day when all of the Fitzes and Stetsons and Bens stop working for FedGuv because they're disgusted by their own complicity in the system that exists. Sure, it'll take time for all of them to find different jobs. It won't be overnight. But that's the "shrug" that needs to happen to right this Ship of State.
Voting won't fix it. Either in the ballot box or from the rooftops.
Two things will fix it: Starving it by denying it taxes, and starving it by denying it competent manpower to implement its inanities.
Maybe both methods of starving it go hand in hand.
But without starving it, the inane evil stupidity of it all will continue, because government is a perpetual motion machine of inane, stupid, evil ideas born from the faulty assumption of ownership of the product of others, and justified theft.