Reply #66: WRONGO. Good hook though. It is PURE HUBRIS to think someone even reads the POST!

[L. Coyote]

And, with 100,000,000 monkeys at their keyboards everyday, where are they going to find the people to read the slightest fraction of all the crap we word process.

Therein lies the beginning of the data mining scandal. They cannot READ it because there is simply too much to read. So they needed to DATA MINE it. That's where the violation of the Constitution arose. By using a search processor to find keywords and phrases, just like the Google user, you do not need to read the entire Internet to find what you are looking for. And, in all probability, Gonzales is the lawyer who said, "Data mining the communications of everyone in the USA is not a violation of privacy." And then he went on to provide some creative rationale for the end run, which Bush used to burn your Constitutional rights to ashes.

NO, they are not reading it. They are data mining it.

Oh, and they did all the things you mention long ago. Nothing new in any of that, not even the torture is new. That has always been the state of things when there has been a state. The only thing worse is when there was no state.

We are the state of things. There is no government, just people playing their roles. As we speak and write, hopefully someone is listening and reading.