Telephone companies spying on you and me

I am sure that everyone has heard that Verizon, BellSouth, and AT&T have given the NSA phone records of tens of millions of Americans. This consists of billions of telephone calls. Should we be shocked? No. This is what is going on in America and anyone who has picked up a newspaper in the last few years should not be shocked. Who is really to blame for this? Maybe we all are. We continue to be apathetic when our government breaks the rules of our society. We continue to do business with companies that spy on us. There is a much bigger problem than phone companies spying. We have been complacent while our government, not so quietly, becomes a tyrant.

We have a government that is trying to convince us that we need to be saved from ourselves. We have a government that is trying to scare us into such a frenzy that we welcome and even sometimes demand “Big Brother” type intrusions. The only problem with this attitude of “fight fire with fire” is that everyone gets burned in the end. Didn’t Hitler and Stalin and Mao and many countless others convince their citizens that we only spy on you for your own good? Didn’t these horrible men scare their citizens the same way our government is doing now?

I am reminded that in our past we have not always been a “good” nation. This nation was once allied with Stalin. This nation watched Hitler walk over Europe for years and only fought him once he declared war on us. This nation also has supported leaders from Napoleon to Saddam Hussein. Our government has been friends with tyrants and I only hope that this has not rubbed off on us too much.

For now our government is still controlled by the people. We should not quietly give up our rights. We should not quietly let our government become a tyrant as long as it promises us protection.

As someone wise said, GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK