SCENE:\u00a0 MITCH Berg is shopping at an electronics store.\u00a0 Avery LIBRELLE runs into him in the aisle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 So – your president is kinda going nuts, here, siccing government agencies on private citizens and dissident groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Ha ha, Merg.\u00a0 All of this surveillance started under Chimpy McBushitler!\u00a0 If you supported it then, you have to support it now!<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 For starters, Obama’s ramped it up to a new level; I’ve seen no evidence that Bush took the domestic surveillance to anything like the level that Obama has.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0 So there’s an amount of domestic\u00a0surveillance you deem acceptable?<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 Sure – with a warrant, and observing the due process of law that’s supposed to be a Fourth Amendment right.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0Hah!\u00a0 So you’re a Fourther.<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 I suppose you could say that.\u00a0 Weren’t you a Fourther when Bush was President?<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0That was different.<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 Ah.\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 Secondly, I didn’t support it back then.<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0 You didn’t stop it!<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 How would I stop government surveillance?<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0 By blowing the whistle.<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 I don’t work anywhere near the field.<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0What is this “Work” you keep talking about?<\/p>\n
MITCH: Fair enough.\u00a0 Thirdly;\u00a0 you complained about government surveillance under Bush…<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Hissssssssss…<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 …but Bush did little more than expand on policies that Bill Clinton…<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0Yaaaaaay!<\/p>\n
MITCH: …initiated with his 1994 Crime Bill and 1996 Counterterrorism act, which greatly expanded the Fed’s wiretapping and domestic surveillance rights.\u00a0 I mean, do you remember “Echelon?”<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0 The thing that had all you paranoid Faux-News-watching Alex-Jones-listening Bristol-Palin-is-Trig’s-Mom-believing wingnuts pooping in your pants back in the nineties?<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 The government’s purported effort to create broad-based systematic eavesdropping on domestic telephone and online communications.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 So let me be clear here; you supported Clinton’s domestic wiretapping and surveillance efforts?<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 There were Right-Wing militias roaming the countryside blowing up federal buildings and churches and kidnapping Cuban kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 But under Bush…<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0…it was oppression of domestic dissent!<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 …while under Obama…<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0 …he’s got a war on terror on two fronts – the Middle East and here at home!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And if you oppose him, you support putting bombs in the hands of right-wingers like the Tsarnaev brothers!<\/p>\n
MITCH:\u00a0 Um…gotcha.\u00a0 What’s in the bag?<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE:\u00a0\u00a0 All my electronics.\u00a0 I’m having the service department wrap them in tinfoil.<\/p>\n
(And SCENE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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