Reappraising Obama

Did you know that we could pretty much keep all Americans safe from terrorists if we revoked all Constitutional rights, eavesdropped on all communications, kept Americans in small, policed neighborhoods like prison communities?  It then becomes a really easy task.  Look at N. Korea, with bugged housing, and Singapore with Draconian laws that have eliminated just about all crime - Even bubble-gum chewing!  

They are humorless and obedient cultures, lacking innovation and sheer joy or genius.

The trick in the US is to solve our problems without impeding Constitutional rights.  Both Democrats and Republicans take the easy way out (ending our rights), not for the good of the people, not to keep Americans safe, but for the further fleecing of Americans by the corporations.  

You keep touting Obama's insurance bonanza bill ("already cut Medicare costs by 50%") when I keep telling you that there's a way to do it without Americans giving up their right of privacy (that's what IT for Medicare reporting has done - It's ended Americans' medical privacy).  

There is a very real price paid when we lose our privacy, when we open our lives to clandestine surveillance by the government and strangers.  The danger is not only in the misuse of our information, but the effect of being watched has on innovation and other aspects of culture.
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