This flap over spying

"RIP OFF THE CLOAK OF INDIFFERENCE...AND CHOOSE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE."
These words were amongst the last spoken to an indifferent society, prior to the arrests, trials and martyrdoms, of the young (mostly) Catholic anti-Nazi activists of the White Rose.
Much of what Hitler and his stooges accomplished was through domestic terrorism, designed to squelch any protest or free thought.
So, too, is the present US administration's war on whistle-blowers and other protesters having just that same intended, chilling effect.
The cruel pre-trial imprisonment (18 months was it?) and subsequent mistreatment of Bradley Manning is unspeakable and breaches his Constitutional rights, even if he is in the military; the preposterous carryings-on over Edward Snowden, members of Congress calling for his head as a traitor...what rubbish. Does this administration NOT care that Edward Snowden has exposed a patently unConstitutional domestic spying ring? And to what end?
This president, the purported Constitutional law expert, who so loudly proclaimed that "sunlight is the best disinfectant," that his would be the most transparent administration yet, has proved, once again, unequal to the cause he so brazenly espoused. Well, unequal or unwilling...
He might have been wiser to have kept his mouth shut, if what he was going to do was, in fact, further a neo-fascist government.
I cannot sit idly by, as the government of this Republic so shamelessly adopts Nazi and Stalinist tactics, in the "name of national security."
BOSH!
One could ALMOST excuse the Bush #43 administration for their breaches of the Constitution. They really never made any pretence of following the law, anyway.
Cheney is a man bent on corruption and skullduggery; poor Alberto Gonzales is as much a moron as the man he served as president; John Ashcroft almost had a conscience.
John Yoo, on the other hand, is a veritable Josef Goebbels. Thanks to his twisted legal arguments, torture, which had been anathema in this Republic since the time of the Revolution, suddenly became acceptable in this country - in defiance of ALL international treaties and laws the Congress agreed to.
AND THE VOICES THAT CRIED OUT WERE IGNORED. We cried to Heaven and went unheeded.
The Bush administration began a war on protesters which this president, Barack Obama, has only stepped up. "Power corrupts...etc"
Through his pliable Justice Department, headed by Eric Holder, the cry of "national security" is being used to silence protesters in a subtle but very effective campaign of domestic terrorism.
And he wants to put Ray Kelly, THAT fascist pig as head of the DHS...God, that's a disaster just brewing, if you ask me.
The superficial changes Obama has instituted are, in fact, only band-aids. His race to a new Nazism is running rampant. The corporate power being wielded in Washington, DC and in state legislatures across the land, is wiping out our Constitutional rights and the voice of the people, little by little.
Our voting rights are being stripped, and what does the Jsutice Dept. do? NOTHING.
Our right to know what our government, our ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES, are enacting in OUR names, is being glossed over and hidden away. We only find out about things ex post facto.
That, I think, is not what our Founders had in mind when they ratified the Constitution, indeed, when they fought the British monarchy.
The Founders were already sick of the secrecy and under-hand way in which laws were passed and then foisted on them. They were determined that such secret maneuverings were not going to be part of the operations of THIS new government.
Well, it did not take too long before such narrow and bigotted laws were passed.
Sadly, "the apple does not fall too far from the tree."
And now, here we are, again, having to cope with that insufferable, and, to my mind, unConstitutional, Patriot Act.
Suddenly, the Federal Government may, with little provocation or just cause, undertake a program of domestic terrorism which would have a decidedly chilling effect on protest and those who, finding malfeasance and high crimes in government offices, report same, will discover they are hunted like criminals...and ALL in the name of national security. What a farce!
While I am not certain how I shall go about this, I shall try to resurrect the White Rose and try to restore our Republic's good name and integrity, which our Congress and President have taken in vain.  
So, what have we got? A government which is engaged in patently evident instances of domestic terrorism; manifold foreign wars, at untold cost in lives and treasure; unchallenged voter suppression across broad swathes of the Republic; a government handed over, lock, stock and barrel, to corporate interests, without regard to the needs of the people.
This is a government which, according to Jefferson's inspired Declaration of Independence, deserves to be brought down and changed to suit the needs of ALL people, not simply the banks or corporate CEOs. If the rich don't like it...oh well!