call me paranoid

I hate to get too "big brother," but the concept of wire tapping make me nervous. I feel like right now, even if the government can justify whatever it is doing under the grand headline of "Homeland Security," we are letting them run away with too much power. The Patriot Act alone was a heinous and egregious error on the part of our legislature. They claim to be wire-tapping terrorists and Al-Queda insurgents, but they are using it as an excuse for racial profiling. Luckily for the government, the right and left are too busy blaming and ridiculing each other to step in and actually protect civil liberties. The conflict from within is perpetuating the encroachment of government control.

I sound entirely too paranoid and intense for my actual emotional attachment to the situation. I do not worry about being spied on or bugged [at least for the moment]. So for the sake of light-hearted fun:
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=274