Dear Mr NSA/PRISM Guy

[Doktor Howl]

Dear Sir or Ma'am:

I've been following this whole mess to the best of my ability, and constitutional complaints aside, I have to ask you a question:  What kind of person can sit in a cube all day reading other people's mail?

Seriously.  There has to be something wrong in your head.  You want to college for 4-6 years to do THIS?  Most college grads I know are designing things or teaching children or healing the sick.  At the end of the day, they have a feeling of accomplishment; they have made the world a better place.  A child has learned.  A machine has been invented or repaired.  A cancer patient has a new lease on life.

And you?  You spent how many hours reading the grotty little details of other peoples' lives.  It's like being a peeping tom...Not even that.  There's no real voyeurism in it, even.  It's just peering into private lives, on the one in a billion chance you'll find some terrorist plotting mayhem.  At least I HOPE that's why you do it, though my sense of history tells me otherwise.

And I am sure that you have sold yourself somehow on the idea that this doesn't violate the 4th amendment, or that the 4th amendment is not all that important.  That secret courts, such as FISA, are somehow not an abomination that would make James Madison puke his lunch onto his buckled shoes.  You must have sold yourself on one of those two ideas, or you wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

But you know, and I know, that you're lying to yourself, if indeed you care at all.  And this lie has led you to call non-liars "traitors" and "spies", for merely telling the public that their supposed public servants are spending money and valuable time listening in on the public that they are supposed to be serving.  Snowden comes to mind, but there have been others, haven't there?

So let's talk truth for a minute.  Let's set aside the rationalizations and excuses, and get right down to the nut-cutting.  You are not serving America or protecting America.  No, what you are doing is in some ways WORSE than what the terrorists have accomplished.  They have attacked us and killed people, but - as even George W Bush pointed out - they can't destroy America, because America is in the end an idea.  But YOU can destroy that idea, and that's precisely what you are doing, one petty violation of principle at a time.

So be proud.  You may be betraying the founders and the revolution, but at least you're better at it than the terrorists.

Venomously yours,
Doktor Howl

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

PREACH IT, BROTHER!

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Well said.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

A-FUCKING-WOMEN

[Doktor Howl]

A-FUCKING-WOMEN

[Left]

 

[P3nT4gR4m]

fucking-a

My enemies are not the terrorists. My enemies are the ones who made the terrorists.

[Doktor Howl]

fucking-a

My enemies are not the terrorists. My enemies are the ones who made the terrorists.

My enemies are anyone who attempts to crap on me.  Especially when I'm too busy to dodge.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Fuckin A.