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Before retiring tonight, don't forget to wave goodnight to the FBI outside your window.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights (From public domain.) In college, I had an excellent Eastern European politics professor -- Sarah Terry -- who recounted a Halloween party she attended at one of the Western embassies or other Western centers in Warsaw during the Cold War (I think in the 1970's or 1980's). Outside the party was a car obviously containing Polish (or Soviet?) surveillance agents. Not missing an opportunity to extend the merrymaking, a bunch of the party attendees paraded out in full garb to the surveillance agants and merrily invited them outside. The agents' reaction was that they would prefer being anywhere else at the moment.  In the United States, domestic police and intelligence spying and surveillance on United States citizens and non-citizen residents is rampant...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on September 14, 2008 (boomark / email).