How Much Do You Trust Your Government?

In a Washington Post report yesterday it was revealed by government officials that most of the "suspects" that the NSA have been spying on here in America were later cleared of any suspicion of terrorist ties.

For most of us, that is not a surprise. For the diehard Bush Can Do No Wrong crowd it means once more they'll look the other way as his lies and machinations are exposed.

Yet two more articles come to light that should give us as much concern as domestic spying.

The first is a request Bush has made to kill terror suspects on US soil. Considering that he wants to kill suspects and not convicted terrorists and taking into consideration that most of his suspects in the domestic spying issue were cleared, is it really feasible or wise to give him that authority? Think he wouldn't abuse it? Feel secure about the intelligence agencies in the US today?

The second came to my attention this morning. An article from the BBC states:
And, in a grand finale, the document recommends that the United States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum".

US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum".

Consider that for a moment.

The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.

Are these plans the pipe dreams of self-aggrandising bureaucrats? Or are they real?

The fact that the "Information Operations Roadmap" is approved by the Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are taken very seriously indeed in the Pentagon.

And that the scale and grandeur of the digital revolution is matched only by the US military's ambitions for it.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4655196.stm

It seems the Bush administration is planning a psychological war using US media.
Read the article. It's a chilling look into politics.

How long will it take for the majority of Americans to shout "enough!"? Or will opposition be silenced before threats can be processed?

I fear for our republic. I fear for our freedoms.