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Frightening? You people are frightened of everything!

By the way, its not attacking the messenger to simply point out that the writer isn’t consistent about her worries concerning the government collection of personal data of US citizens. So, thanks for correcting me on the writer–it turns out that Feldman actually has no problem with collecting the information of citizens as long as its a Republican adminstration doing it. Take a look at this, just two years ago:

There has been much debate on the legality of the program [Bush's eavesdropping].All significant legal opinions in areas of new technology and unprecedented situations are debated…the President acted out of real concern for the national welfare and in an area not adequately covered by existing law or procedure.And the Rasmussen poll shows that almost two—thirds of Americans agree with the President that the program was necessary, and the normal law enforcement model using warrants constitutes an archaic and impossible hurdle…

There you have it. Collecting data on citizens is perfectly ok if the President personally feels like he has a good reason to do it; he doesn’t have to tell you about it, it doesn’t have to be legal.

This is what you people never understood over the last eight years–the incredible power you gladly gave the government when its ostensible enemies were portrayed as the people you feared doesn’t go away just because a Democratic President is in power. Do you think that Obama really needs the flag email to monitor you buttonheads? Bush gathered all the power he needs to constantly monitor your every electronic communication without telling congress or the American people. And Democrats cowed by a largely ignorant and frightened electorate helped him get it.

If its true that as your intellectual leader, Glenn Beck, says, Obama has a hatred of white people, that he’s a fascist and a socialist, then you people really are in trouble. Because the previous democracy and free speech President set incredible precedents for the executive to spy on the American people and Feldman fronted for him all the way. The idea of her now fearing the power of a special email address to the White House is just bizarre in that context…

Feldman actually asked for the investigation of FISA judges who leaked clearly illegal activity by the adminstration–that activity was datamining the communications of people like you. Perhaps you, who knows. If nothing else, Feldman is a staunch defender of government secrecy, and anyone who informs the public about illegal government behavior should be put in jail! This is the proponent of your paranoid fantasies about flag@whitehouse.gov.

Lastly, this is Feldman again, protecting the very idea of datamining–that is companies or the government monitoring your internet activity to compile your personal information, without your consent or knowledge:

Just in time for the Hayden confirmation hearings USA Today recycles the NSA survveillance story with hints of nefarious purposes behind the data mining of telephone traffic patterns. I would remind you that this is what happens every day when traffic engineers monitor traffic patterns, when your grocery store discount card provides the company with detailed records of buying patterns, when Amazon suggests you might like a particular book. Data mining and traffic pattern collection is part and parcel of every day commercial life. Would you deny to those charged with our security the right to do what merchandisers do every day?

Enjoy the world you asked the government to create for you.