Obama--the grumblings

[Urbane Guerrilla]

You mistake me for playing a game. What I am doing is enlightening you whether you're with it enough to appreciate it or not. The blinkers have to come off, and then you are fully free, adult, and human.

When were you or anyone you know wiretapped? I haven't been, either, and I might theoretically be a better candidate for monitoring: decades ago, I held compartmented access to top-secret information, pursuant to my job at the time. Could somebody wonder if I have secrets to sell?

People have hollered that "FISA is being circumvented" but a closer look says they're still controlling intelligence gathering on communications between foreign "persons of interest" and US persons speaking with them.

FOIA's access frankly goes up and down, broadening and then narrowing, and its determination of what is releasable and what isn't remains closed to the public -- just as it always was. As a onetime intelligence professional, I can say I understand why this must be. It boils down to one thing: you never compromise your sources. Make your targets figure 'em out themselves. Meanwhile, you do all in your power to let the targets stay complacent. All in your power amounts to quite a bit.

"Bogus voting rights cases to block minority voters" is a popular shibboleth among the Left, but evidence remains lacking. Even the most determinedly anti-Administration newspapers have nothing they'd call solid. And if they have no confidence, as much as they'd prefer to...

That you would say "Gun rights? WTF?" that blankly illustrates how terribly unversed you are in a republic's fundamentals -- that you don't know enough to value even this basic thing. Sorry, Redux, but that was patronizable in the largest manner. You must grasp this national fundamental before you can think intelligently, and if you're a man of parts, you can grasp it with ease. If you're not smart, you will exhibit no understanding. It is a basic mechanism for "a Republic, if you can keep it."

Nobody I know was howling in this country, Redux, and I'm no hermit. Your circle of friends seems too small, too cloney, and too much an echo chamber. Never confuse the Left with "the country;" the data do not support this idea.