Jim Grisanzio

You are never alone …

Barak Obama continues to take the United States down the road toward more secrecy, more insecurity, and more fear. He’s got it all exactly backwards. He’s a prettier package, granted, but he’s basically embracing and extending Bush. The point was to change direction. Remember? Not accelerate in the direction of the cliff. Glenn Greenwald states the obvious quite correctly: “This is all supposed to be the other way around: it’s government officials who are supposed to operate out in the open, while ordinary citizens are entitled to privacy.” That’s a charming thought in light of the latest Washington Post investigative report probing how the U.S. government is spying on American citizens. I know, all this is supposed to keep us safe from the terrorists. Got it. Read the series in the Washington Post and decide for yourself. Watch out for Top Secret America coming to PBS Frontline in January. And do not forget your government is watching, too. They are watching you, that is. Yeah, it will be ok. I mean, really, we are not doing anything wrong so what do we have to fear. Right? It’s the terrorists they are after.