Sometimes I have to close my eyes and whisper to myself, head shaking, "this isn't happening. It can't be happening." But it is, like it or not. And there's absolutely nothing we can do about it because everyone is so fucking clueless as to what is happening. I don't know if it's because they are so scared that having our every step recorded is better than the slim to none chance of dying as a result of terrorism. Or maybe we've all just succummed to the attention-span-draining that has been attempted ever since the installation of cable television and the internet. Myabe we're just dumb. Maybe we're just numb. I don't know, but I refuse to give up. They'll have to drag me, kicking and screaming all the way to the re-education camps or whatever they'll do to the lot of us who are just too damn proud of FREEDOM in this country to let some wanker or two in a judicially appointed administration take it all down in hopes of making the big bucks in the stock market after the game is done or making Jesus come back or whatever the fucked up reasons for all of this are. I don't know. Shit, I feel as though I'm condemning myself as I write. Enter the Thought Police. Stage Right.

from Your Grocery List Could Spark a Terror Probe:

"I can't reveal my source, but a federal agency involved in espionage actually did a rating system of almost every citizen in this country," Ponemon claims. "It was based on all sorts of information—public sources, private sources. If people are not opted in"—meaning they haven't chosen to participate—"one can generally assume that information was gathered through an illegal system."