What follows is not an accusation, as it comes from no firm, personal knowledge. It does, however, attempt to draw some wispy lines between dots that now seem random and unexplainable.
Suppose a certain supreme court justice is checking e-mail one evening–as we all do, and makes a stray and random click–as we all do, and up pops a smiling teen cutie, preening on the beach, wearing nothin’ but sunshine. Flushed, he quickly cancels it out, but the record is there. Computers never forget.
Suppose at that moment, in another part of town, a NSA agent is watching and logging his every click. Actually, there’s no need to suppose. That’s already happening.
Suppose that information is passed to an ideological ally of that agent… Son of a gun… That seems to be happening too.
Suppose that ally–putting ideology above the oath he or she took–decides to use his or her position to help his or her friends and hinder his or her political opposition. There’s sure no supposing about this. It has happened. Admittedly. Nearly three hundred times–just in one agency.
So, a few days later, the aforementioned supreme court justice is enjoying a pause on a shady park bench. A stranger chances to sit beside him–close enough to converse.
The stranger engages a conversation that goes something like: ‘We really need your help on the healthcare vote, and we really, really don’t want you to be the first supreme court justice to be known for surfing teen porn–if you get my drift.’ He reaches to his shirt pocket and half pulls out that same picture. Fixing a steely gaze on the eyes of the Justice, he innocently asks, ‘Could you help us?’
What the supreme court justice does next, might–to the rest of us–seem absolutely unexplainable. Irrational. Unthinkable.
Information is power. And, it turns out, we are paying hundreds of agents in dozens of agencies to skulk in the background dredging up information about–not our enemies–but us. Add to this a newly formed political ethic that reads, “Win at all costs. No rules.” It’s a poisonous mix to freedom and privacy.
When people do unexplainable things… When fifteen Republicans lend their name to a vote that could well spell the end of their party, it makes you ask, ‘why?’.
Noone is accusing here. This is just mindless musing. It surely–well it probably didn’t happen this way.
But it does make you wrinkle your face a little when you realize how very many inexplicable things this could explain…
Oh.. and by the way. Wasn’t the Democrat party caught with 700 FBI super secret highly personal files of Washington’s notables? Of course that was a few years ago. Of course they gave them back and blamed a low-level staffer. Of course they didn’t glean any information about those 700 people while they had the detailed and very sensitive files in their possession. Of course they erased any very personal information they might have accidentally gleaned. Of course none of that information is being used to gain the cooperation of those 700 Washington notables even yet today. And it’s a good thing, as that might make them do some really unexplainable things.
Yes, it might.
