Blogger: Your government is listening

The Bush League boys, clinging to their life-raft obstruction of Obama’s Ship of State, are really pissed off these days.

And no wonder. “Too much government” is threatening them -- too much Democratic refusal to overlook oversight of illegal activity.

The real, on-the-back, governmental interference in the form of wiretaps on private conversations, e-mails, credit information and illegal targeting of journalists and whistle-blowers doesn’t seem to spell “interference” to the advantaged few.

As long as it’s Big Brother Bush who is listening, the profiteers aren’t yelling “too much government” from under their political umbrellas.

Those who feel entitled to rape the environment for their own pieces of silver see nothing too governmental about right-wing sanction on the theft and pollution of the public domain. Their fortunes depend on it.

The greatest threat, secondary only to war-criminal proceedings against the former administration, is what Republicans choose to label Socialism. There’s danger in the suggestion that our citizens may be given the say-so promised them in the constitution, and American society may dig its way out of the hole through education, awareness and creative enterprise.

The “National Security” excuse and the lie that says whatever the president decides is legal may no longer be sacrosanct. Fear-mongering may become less effective with every governmental lie and phony alarm voted off the backs of Americans. In electing Barack Obama, the American public has already vetoed “security” at the expense of personal freedom.

Still, the hard-liners persist in complaining, “Why should the taxpayer have anything to say about where his money and honor is being spent, much less exercise the power of legal redress against those who would steal his home, his job and his retirement pension?”

Eight years of Republican rule-of-the-marketplace might already have stripped him of the social security Bush and Corporation were so keen on privatizing had not Congress finally come around to “interfering” with the crime.

It’s all been “invested” anyway: In wars and corporate shenanigans and oily interference with competition from creative answers to energy-dependence. Democracy has already been tossed in the round file. And having made a complete botch of the American economy, as well as the depression of world-economy, the remaining right winger is determined to fly up against all Democratic efforts to undo the selfish mess he’s left the Obama Administration to clean up.

The Gospel According to Republicans past and present would have it that any legal oversight threatening to expose unwarranted spying, stock trading, torture, obstruction of justice, the investors’ life’s savings that Madoff made off with, the SEC’s cashing in on the fraud that it is supposed to regulate--all come under the heading of too much government.

According to Republican standards and example, the American citizen who works for a living -- and he’s lucky, these days, to be working at all -- ought to be content to pick up the tab for a thieving neo-con con-artist who embraced executive tyranny and perversion of justice under the guise of protection from terrorists.

To justify greed and celebrate ignorance: That is the Republican agenda.

As long as governmental secrecy presides over “interference” from the rule of law, we might as well hang it up. The alternative is a return to democracy and the rule of law, and we’re all going to have to put up with the cop on the corner who enforces it.