I see that the original title was censored after it was submited on my comment. It should have read:

TRUST US WE’RE THE (SPIN) DOCTORS.

Well EOS, I know a WHOLE BUNCH of folks who have lost their civil liberties as a result of this. As a matter of fact, anytime I talk to my sister on her cell phone, I can be guaranteed that the calls are monitored, even though I can’t imagine why anyone in the government would be the least bit interested in hearing us discuss the various details involved with the care of our elderly parents, which is pretty much all we get a chance to talk about these days.

Well, she has At&T;, so it’s a given, and she says I’m just being paranoid. I know a bunch of others who feel the same way, especially the kids on my campus. They’re like…so what if they wanna see my text messages. What are they gonna do with a stupid text message?

Ah…if they only knew! The thugs will do anything they want with it, in the furtherance of their totalitarian regime. At the end of the tube, that’s what it’s all about.

Today it’s your email, next week you could just disappear, never to be seen or heard from again. (Especially with a handle like Enemy of the State). Then again, they may save you for later. That’s just it…we don’t really know, do we?

And, that’s an important tactic of the terror. Just keep everybody from knowing anything, change the rules, make them up as they go along, and if you’re even in the slightest mood of resisting any of this…you go first.

Did ya check out the article on the Blackwater protestors? Well, THEY were arrested, and spent 5 days in jail, for protesting outside the Blackwater private compound/military base in N.C. The Blackwater folks who killed all of those innocent Iraqis of course, left unaccountable, and these Americans were locked up for protesting. This is an almost everyday thing now. Same thing happened a couple of weeks ago,

Protesters Demand Guantanamo Close: 80 Arrested
Demonstrators wearing orange jump suits intended to simulate prison garb were

Anyway, whenever I exchange e-mail with my former colleagues via the corporate server, it’s ANOTHER given that all of the mail is monitored. They can send me prayers and stupid chain mails 50 times a day, and the corp has no problem, (even though they’re doing this on company time). But if I sent them something from Truthdig or Truthout, (my other favorite site for news we all need) it’s unlikely to make it thru the corporate filter. Matter of fact, Truthout.org has had a notice up on their site for several months now, advising that both hotmail and AOL are preventing delivery of their newsletters, even though at least 50% of their coverage is from the MSM. (but, it’s the stuff they hope most people won’t read).

Unconnected to spying, but in the same vein, (a fascist regime coup) INS and DHS are now detaining and/or deporting, AMERICAN CITIZENS. Check it out:
  Immigration Officials Detaining, Deporting American Citizens
  By Marisa Taylor
  McClatchy Newspapers

  Florence, Ariz. - Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an illegal immigrant from Russia.

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held Warziniack for weeks in an Arizona detention facility with the aim of deporting him to a country he’s never seen. His jailers shrugged off Warziniack’s claims that he was an American citizen, even though they could have retrieved his Minnesota birth certificate in minutes and even though a Colorado court had concluded that he was a U.S. citizen a year before it shipped him to Arizona. 

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012508F.shtml

Actually, this has happened to me on a number of occasions, when I used to travel a lot. They never actually DEPORTED me, since I always traveled with all of the appropriate documentation. But, they’d still stop me and ‘detain’ me, just enough to be a hassle. Happens to a lot of folks.

So yeah, there’s a problem Houston. (which is probably where it started).

Trust us my back side. Whenever you hear that from the mouth of any politician, you know you’re in trouble. I must say they are really hard up if they read all my emails or listen to phone calls.

The real Americans(?)that should be monitored 24/7 are all those who hold public office, especially those in the White House. After all, they are supposed to be the ones who work for us and as their “employers”  We The People should be the ones who read their emails and listen to their phone calls. The secretive, underhanded and dishonest policies this administration has done in the last 7 years more than proves that. If they really wanted to gleam information that is not in the best interest of America, they don’t have to go any further than their own backyards.

Oversight has certainly been sorely lacking in this administration.  When attempts were made to utilize it, invariably the putrid “state secrets” excuse was eschewed.  Crooks and liars….liars and crooks, that’s all they are.

When this administration is asked what 1+1 is, the answer is something to this effect: 901,746,258,923 and 560/3rds. brought to the 76th decimal place divided by 47 and multiplied by number of visible stars in the night sky on a partly cloudy to nearly clear night on the fourth full moon of a year which ends in a odd number.

And if someone actually proves the inaccuracy of their answer, they’ll say, “Sorry senator, I misspoke, I meant the number of stars on a nearly clear to partly cloudy night on the FIFTH full moon of a year that ends in a….in a…I’m sorry Senator So and So, I’ll have to get back to you on whether the year ends in an odd or even number.  I don’t have that information in front of me…..

Are you agreeing with him? Are you disagreeing with him? Just curious.