"Big Brother is watching you." KOB radio neo con listener: "Who cares I ain't doing nuttin' wrong."

Central Leviathan thinks everyone is doing "something wrong." It is no different today under Obama than it was under Bush, except now it's the "liberals" turn to worship their messiah.

The Patriot Act hugging, Constitution deficient conservatives, who spouted hoorah for George W Bush on radio shows are finding themselves under the cross hairs of the Department of Homeland Security for failing their first duty as free Americans - to be good patriotic citizens you must read the Constitution and understand what it says. Read a little history and use your head other than as a ramming implement.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/12/opinion/main5629878.shtml

A taste of this CBS.com story:
"... our counterinsurgency wars ...a process historians of such American wars can tell you has been going on for a long, long time. Counterintelligence innovations like centralized data, covert penetration, and disinformation developed during the Army's first protracted pacification campaign in a foreign land — the Philippines from 1898 to 1913 —- were repatriated to the United States during World War I, becoming the blueprint for an invasive internal security apparatus that persisted for the next half century."

"... Bush's Global War on Terror plunged the U.S. military into four simultaneous counterinsurgency campaigns, large and small — in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and (once again) the Philippines — transforming a vast swath of the planet into an ad hoc "counterterrorism" laboratory. The result? Cutting-edge high-tech security and counterterror techniques that are now slowly migrating homeward.

"... the following example of what experiments in such a"‘laboratory" have led to:

"...biometrics were helping to pacify Baghdad's far larger population of seven million came in April 2007 when the New York Times published an eerie image of American soldiers studiously photographing an Iraqi's eyeball. With only a terse caption to go by, we can still infer the technology behind this single record of a retinal scan in Baghdad: digital cameras for U.S. patrols, wireless data transfer to a mainframe computer, and a database to record as many adult Iraqi eyes as could be gathered. Indeed, eight months later, the Washington Post reported that the Pentagon had collected over a million Iraqi fingerprints and iris scans. By mid-2008, the U.S. Army had also confined Baghdad's population behind blast-wall cordons and was checking Iraqi identities by satellite link to a biometric database."

"...early 2008, U.S. forces were also collecting facial images accessible by portable data labs called Joint Expeditionary Forensic Facilities, linked by satellite to a biometric database in West Virginia."

"A war fighter needs to know one of three things," explained the inventor of this lab-in-a-box. "Do I let him go? Keep him? Or shoot him on the spot?"

".. a U.S. sniper could take a bead on the eyeball of a suspected terrorist, pause for a nanosecond to transmit the target's iris or retinal data via backpack-sized laboratory to a computer in West Virginia, and then,...pull the trigger."

No doubt Neocons would cheer that on. But wait, we now have a guy in office who hates Fox News and has them placed on his "enemies list."

The DHS classifies veterans and concerned Americans as potential terrorists. How long will it be before we are told that mandatory iris scans at airports, train stations, federal buildings, etc., are the next "breakthrough" which will keep us all safe?

Of course, many of those who maintain today that “It can never happen here!,” will, on that day, be saying, “We’ve always done it this way.”

The solution to much of the problem of terrorism is to be found in common sense and constitutional methods of police investigation, not in depriving the entire populace of even more of their civil liberties.

9-11 and Ft. Hood in 2009 took place because information that the government already possessed was not acted upon. It is debatable whether we are safer now than we were before September 11; what is beyond debate is that we are certainly LESS FREE.

Even if neocons and liberals think that "security " is better than liberty, they are stupid wrong! Ask Ben Franklin.