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| "The NSA can go straight to hell!" That's what she DIDN'T say. |
Last month, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles, Torrance) moderated a forum at Loyola Marymount University on the invasive National Security Administration (NSA) into the daily lives of ordinary Americans.
The federal program collecting information on almost every citizen has gone too far, with encroachments into our Internet searches as well as monitoring our phone calls and emails. Combatting terrorism is a necessary evil which requires interventionist policies, but President Obama’s current domestic program far exceeds the proper balance of security and privacy. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the purported benefits of massive data collection have worn away our individual liberties.
On a related note, moderation of any kind is a foreign idea altogether with Congresswoman Waters, an excessively illiberal (and yet very liberal) polarizing politician who once threatened to nationalize oil companies in open committee on camera, and who shouted “The TEA Party can go straight to hell!” at a jobs forum in Inglewood, CA.
Last year, following President Obama’s second inauguration, Waters also commented on the President’s political campaign apparatus, Organizing for Action:
And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before.
Perhaps before indicting the federal government’s invasion of our privacy, Waters would like to explain why the Democratic Party political machine has retained so much information about American citizens, too. She should then expose the growing invasion of our privacy through the Affordable Care Act, which will require taxpayers to register their medical information as well as earned income.
Instead of discussing the pros and cons (as well as purposes and concerns) related to domestic spying, it would have been refreshing as well as consistent and efficient if Rep. Waters had stood up and shouted “The NSA can go straight to hell!”