Nerve Endings Firing Away

Glenn Greenwald reminds conservatives (the crazy tea-party kinds) of their hypocrisy:

When you cheer on a Surveillance State, you have no grounds to complain when it turns its eyes on you. If you create a massive and wildly empowered domestic surveillance apparatus, it’s going to monitor and investigate domestic political activity. That’s its nature.

All those people who justified Bush’s domestic surveillance program thinly disguised as national security measures are now afraid that the government may be spying on them because they are talking about revolution and secession. Why would conservative bloggers identify themselves with the likes of Timothy McVeigh who blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and killed 168 Americans or that crazy guy who shot and killed four Pittsburgh cops because he was afraid the government was taking his guns away?

And if those bloggers are afraid that government surveillance will embark on the slippery slope and begin spying on them then be mindful, that they themselves justified such a system when Bush was in power. Alas! governments change. If you give governments too much power, they are going to use it and not always in your favor. You wanted a government that acted as your nanny so now live with it.

Update: Before you claim that the Department of Homeland Security is only targetting the right-wing extremists and ignoring the left-wing extremists like anti-capitalist and ant-globalization (think G-20 protesters), then fear not. Greg Sargent at Plum Line has obtained copies of a similar DHS memo that is focused on left-wing radicals as well. Mind you, the government does not discriminate on idealogy when it comes to criminal activities. Now what you define criminal is a whole different matter. Are anti-abortion bombings alright but anti-war protests not? In my opinion, protest all you want, the moment you get violent, you are committing criminal acts and deserve to be punished; right-wing or left-wing.