There's Something about Spying

Once I lived in this little apartment by the beach. The owner was a slum lord who felt she was free to enter our apartment at her whim, increase our rent monthly, and terrorize the cat owners that lived there(you don't want to know). We moved out at the end of our lease, we gave proper notice, and she refused to return our deposit. The place was better after we left than when we moved in. She started calling us day and night claiming we owed her rent, it was nuts.

So after a few weeks of her abuse I bought a little tape recorder. I taped her phone messages, her calls. After 3 or 4 days, I answered the phone and said nothing, but played back her messages for a while. She never called back again.

Now, I didn't have a court order. In fact, it's pretty much against the law to record someone on the phone without their knowledge, I believe..... But it worked.

That's about where I stand on the NSA and the tapping of American's phones. They are welcome to listen in on my phone conversations, but they won't. They are looking for specific threats.

Imagine this: Terrorist #1 living in Nebraska, we'll call him T1, calls Terrorist #2 living in Oregon, we'll call him T2.

T1:Salutations T2, I have been informed that we are to carry out some jihad on the infidels asses, next Tuesday at 10:00.

T2:Great, these infidels are pissing me off, all this freedom and democracy. I'd just love to get all jihad on their collective asses. So, I'll meet you at the corner of 4th and Broadway?

T1:Yes, see you there. Allah Akbar, or whatever.

Now, here are a couple of options:

1)The NSA heard the conversation, traced the terrorists and sent them packing with a pillow, a change of clothes and a Koran, to Gitmo.

2)The NSA didn't hear the conversation, because a bunch of pansies started whining about how their civil liberties were being threatened. The terrorist meet, and blow up a large building killing a few hundred people+.

Sure, these are "perfect world" scenarios, but, think, really think, about how real world they could be.

Spy away NSA, I'd rather you hear about how hung over I was after New Years Eve,while listening for terrorists; than not listening and letting them succeed.