For those suffering some form of "outrage amnesia", I'll just leave this old Bush era news story right here, so in about 7-8 years from now, when all this hits the headlines for a 3rd time (as breaking news), maybe someone with deja vu will point out the fact that it's old news and that this database of information was set up shortly after the 9-11 attacks and news of it was made public in 2006.
-app103
Oh, I have an answer to that one... from a writer's blog.
Read the whole thing. It's a good read. But this is the relevant part.
I was listening to NPR yesterday. They were talking about the information the NSA was collecting on phone records. In the course of the conversation, there was an offhand remark to the following effect: “Obama is doing the same thing Bush did, although now it may be legal.”
<snip />
How far have we come? Think about it. A major news organization mentions in passing that a President has committed a crime, and it isn’t even worth a pause in the conversation.
Are you angry yet? Disgusted? Appalled? I am.
People remember... It's just ... look at 40's post above about the reaction of kids. That sort of explains it.
More than the repeating history, I think that a favorite quote by Churchill sums it all up to me:
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
- Sir Winston ChurchillAnd all of this explanatory diatribe is only to stretch out the outrage to the point that most people "pick themselves up and hurry off", and this becomes yesterday's news.
Recent Posts
