The TROUBLE with Twitter

Now, it seems to me, the government is concentrating on 'attacking' social networking as a part of their recent effort to define anyone who disagrees with their policies as an extremist. Accusing the American people of attempting to speak with OUR representatives ONLY so we can can get ourselves, or an amusing situation, on YouTube. I say... maybe that's how shallow and vain 'they' are but that does NOT represent the American people. And neither, apparently do they.

As I'm sure many of you already know, many many of our 'representatives' have DRASTICALLY changed their planned meetings with constituents. It seems now that the ONLY 'constituents' they are interested in speaking with are the ones who agree with all of their positions!

Recently there was much outrage, rightfully so IMO, about the White House's recent flag@whitehouse.gov mis-step. Can you IMAGINE the rage from the left had George Bush attempted to create a White House database that contained as much information as possible about anyone and everyone who 'disagreed' with him?! I suspect he might have been burned at the stake for such an egregious error!

This vocal, peaceful, dissent both will, and indeed should, continue. The dissent isn't really that much about health care reform or proposed cap & trade legislation. Those items may be the tipping points for the anger that is swelling in America but they are not the cause. The dissent is much more about a government that seems ever more dictatorial and tyrannical.

America has been very angry since George Bush and Hank Paulson seized 700 BILLION dollars from American tax payers against their will. Only to hand over the money to the very same corrupt institutions that played a major role in getting us into this situation in the first place. Followed by TRILLIONS of tax payer dollars (secretly?) handed out by the Federal Reserve. Bush also got the auto bailouts rolling by keeping them out of bankruptcy long enough to pass them off to Obama. Obama has only continued to bailout everything he can possibly bail out. Including further injection of tax payer money into the auto industry via the 'Cash for Clunkers' program. The MAJORITY of THAT tax payer money is and will end up in the hands of FOREIGN auto-makers! Of course this is but the tip of the iceberg as far as government interference and manipulation. It is on going in our markets and throughout every level of government.

Which brings me to my point... The TROUBLE with Twitter... In using twitter ourselves are we not handing a searchable database of the thoughts, ideas, joy and anger of MILLIONS of Americans over to a government that wants NOTHING MORE than that? Combine that with the government's obvious ability, and willingness, now, to 'trump up' charges against ANYONE they so choose. Government always just uses one of it's favorites to incarcerate anyone they choose. Be it fraud, obstruction, insider trading, lying to investigator's, extremism, terror plots or any other number of 'laws' that are sufficiently vague to allow for the prosecution and imprisonment of almost anyone!

Anyone who disliked the Patriot Act should be keenly aware of what we are voluntarily offering our government now, through the use of twitter. Twitter, in the hands of a corrupt dictatorial government, is a very frighting thing to me. Twitter allows unfettered government spying and intrusion into the life of any American they choose. This seems especially dangerous when combined with the Obama administration's seeming willingness to call ANYONE who disagrees with them an extremist.

Surely we all remember the total outrage over the Bush administration listening in on the phone conversations of Americans, without a court order, when and if they were speaking to someone outside the country who the Bush administration determined might have terrorist ties. Was that an OUTRAGEOUS invasion of privacy by the government? As we were told it was. But twitter hands, nearly, this same ability to anyone who would like to use it to pursue an agenda of any sort. There is absolutely NO oversight.

The communications revolution is over-running Washington and they are as afraid as I ever remember them being in my lifetime. I would bet the majority of the people who 'represent' us do not even know how to use a computer at all. All this communication between and among constituents across the country is frightening them very badly. They have never seen anything like it before and they obviously want it to stop.

They fear mass communication. What they fear even more is the possibility that the party paradigm is about to end for good. They have used the engineered division of Americans for their own purposes for decades. What they fear the most is UNITY among ALL of the American people. Democrats AND republicans alike, uniting as never before in our history against non-democratic, indeed unconstitutional, government actions. This at a time in our history which finds nearly ALL of our politicians flailing wildly in a desperate attempt to save themselves. Not us...

In my opinion the government of the United States will use all means/tools at their disposal, including the ruthless invasion of our privacy and stripping of our guaranteed freedoms, to defend themselves and their arrogant lifestyles. They will do whatever is necessary to put down any social unrest or public uprising. This makes us not a whit different than Iran...

We have voluntarily handed our government a huge searchable database of our own private thoughts and feelings. Good luck to us.

It is my own opinion that we MUST continue to PEACEFULLY resist the destruction of our constitution and our country. Dictatorial, tyrannical rule cannot be allowed in America. Let freedom ring, America. Close your pocketbooks and REFUSE to participate in their 'bubble economics'!

Greg