Position Misty for Me

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Many centrist lawmakers have complained about money wasted in the name of "war on terrorism". Misty is a classic example. Hyped is a need to hide satellites. Worry is that anyone can know when the suvellience satellites are overhead. So a second generation Misty satellite is in orbit hopefully hiding among space debris. Even amatuer satellite trackers know where that bird is. Every rocket launch is known. But intelligence services are now into a third generation 'stealth' satellite.

Fine if stealth addresses a problem. But anyone with things worth hiding have long since buried them. Even a stealth satellite cannot identify what is happening inside mountains in North Korea - or even inside Cheyenne Mountain in CO. But this one stealth satellite has cost well over $10billion.

Again, many centrists in government have complained about gross mismanagement in "secret" government projects. We spend more money on these 'sneaky' projects than the entire defense budget of any other nation in the world. No one need ask what a stealth satellite does that other satellites do just fine.

Misty is a list topper. With a press that cannot report details (because details are not found in sound bytes), then the public typically only hears what extremists broadcast daily. Some of us are now so deviant as to listen daily to these liars. Extremists accuse the centrists of leaking secrets. They accuse the centrists of being anti-American. They accuse centrists of undermining the war on terrorism. What war on terrorism? Even that expression is a lie.

When the public out here does not bother to listen first and foremost to centrists, then extremists can spend money on whatever - without responsbility. Instead too many only hear the administration's claims that honest whistle blowers must be anti-American. Reality: anti-Americans are those who believe anything Rush Limbaugh says without multiple confirmations. Misty is a primary example. The lies that promote Misty alone should bring mist to the eyes of real American patriots - those who think rather than blindly follow lies about a "war on terrorism".

Money from Misty could have instead built a whole new intelligence network that already has spies in those underground facilities. But that means Americans must learn foreign languages. Better to spend money that comes without responsibility attached.