Thoughts from the abyss

If you remember back to December, the NSA’s program about basically infringing on every man, woman, and childs civil freedoms in the United States was exposed to the public. There’s finally a lawsuit pending about whether or not the actual documents in question, either proving or disproving the truth behind whether AT&T was involved, is now pending disclosure to the public. As of now, the courts have the evidence sealed. For those that don’t understand how this part of the law functions, sealed means that no one but the court itself can see the actual evidence until a judge says yay or nay.

Apparently AT&T has five days to speak to the courts to give a reason why they should keep the information private. I think this is crap. If there’s a major violation at hand here, especially dealing with our rights as United States citizens, then the documents should be open to the public. Some will argue that if you have nothing to hide then you shouldn’t have to worry about anything. My argument is simply this:

If I take a tape recorder somewhere and record a conversation about something, anything without telling the other party/parties that I am actually recording it, I am fully prosecutable under the law, as a felony charge I might add. But apparently it’s just dandy if our government reverses the illegal wiretap laws on us. Quite a double standard and flat out hypocrisy in my humble opinion. Apparently our government has forgotten Lincoln’s speech…“that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” They seem to forget these days that we elect them, they work for us, in fact that we pay their salaries.

I think it’s great that someone like Mark Klein is risking himself to take a stand for us.