Should the government search your brain?
The state may soon be able to force you to reveal your password. That’s a huge threat to the Fifth Amendment
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/17/should_the_government_search_your_brain/singleton/
The fact that I am writing this blog entry discussing the idiotic notion that your password that encrypts/protects your data could even possibly be considered as personal data subject to protection by the fifth amendment shows how far along our police state has gone. It is inconceivable to me that a country that ratified the fifth amendment is even capable of asking for this information, let alone pressing once rebuffed. Our Constitution is now nothing more than an old rag suitable for nothing more than wiping up food stains and being discarded in the trash.
Really, _anyone_ who cares anything about the origins of our country and honoring them (hey Tea Party! where is your anger now?) MUST stand up and fight against this sort of thing. Of course, since we are in a police state, that means being run off to Guantanamo as some sort of terrorist (which specific type, they just fill that in whenever convenient), so I guess there just aren’t that many true patriots any more.
I can’t think of any way where this gets better without getting a whole lot worse. I just saw an article (didn’t read it, why get upset about something I can’t influence?) that 90% of the money in our GOP primaries (of course, since Obama is the man, there isn’t any need to spend any money on the Democratic primary) is from 100 people. Think about that and despair! The oligarchy is in firm control of the police state and the only way we can be happy is to carefully conform to what the government wants us to do. Just hope that some wacko like Michele Bachmann or Rick Santorum doesn’t get elected and makes our porn collection illegal (or indeed, having sex with your spouse without intention of procreating illegal). When the best you can possibly look forward to is to minimize your misery, you know you are in deep doo doo.
