IATZ (In After The ZOT!)
Darn it.
Every single troll is now an ENEMY OF THE REPUBLIC!
IATZ
I looked at your blog--thanks for the convenient link--and you should be notified that you have false advertising on your site.
You see, I know people who are "slightly-left-of-center."
People who are "slightly-left-of-center" are good friends of mine.
And you sir, are not "slightly-left-of-center."
For example, people who are slightly "slightly-left-of-center" do not believe that dissent is being squashed just because one idiot or another says it is. They prefer to deal in evidence, and there isn't any evidence that this government is squashing dissent, systematically or otherwise. The only people who believe that it is are the sort of people who gather for a protest in broad daylight with tape over their mouths and pretend that they aren't allowed to be there, while the police horribly oppress them by standing around and drinking coffee.
People who are "slightly-left-of-center" aren't abyssmally stupid enough to think that an enemy that requires certain beard lengths (and bans dancing and TV, mandates the burkha, makes women go out of the house only when walking with a male relative, doesn't allow free thought, speech or freedom of religion, keeps little girls from learning to read, etc.) doesn't hate our freedoms. These people jail, maim or kill anyone who practices liberties that are even available in most dictatorships, yet you can't imagine they hate us for practicing those freedoms and more. That's like saying the Nazis didn't have a problem with Jews.
People who are "slightly-left-of-center" aren't abyssmally stupid enough to think that anyone barbecued stockbrokers to death on 9/11 because of a few foreign policy objections. People who are "slightly-left-of-center" are generally smart enough to realize that even if that were true, it would simply be even more reason we should not stop until every terrorist is in a cell or a cemetary, because anyone who says "your foreign policy is bad, so I'm going to murder thousands of your civilians" needs killing just as badly as someone who says "I hate your freedom, so I'm going to murder thousands of your civilians."
So, in closing, you are not anywhere near "slightly-left-of-center." You are a DU-style moonbat, with paranoiac tendencies and New Age beliefs that amount to a combination of a superiority complex and a habit of staring at your bellybutton.
Oh, and how's that "supporting Google" thing working out for you? They're all about freedom aren't they? As long as you're not Chinese, that is.
If it is obvious that everyone knows of the capacity to wiretap, then it should also be obvious that we're speaking of something far beyond wiretap, the knowledge of which will jeopardize national security.