"It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick..."

from Brian Ross’ ABC News Blog:

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources… “It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation.”

How can this be for real? These strongarm tactics would make Castro blush. How much would Stalin have given for this kind of stranglehold on dissent?

How much more bullying are we supposed to tolerate? Is there a point where the citizens of this nation will wake up and turn on their masters? Why are so few people angered by this kind of behavior in our government? Are they just so beaten down they’ve quit thinking about it? I’m almost there. But I hope I can hold out. The silent citizens who engage in empty, gutless, nationalistic, fascist patriotism are the greatest traitors of all.

I hate what these vermin are doing to our country. The next 30 months cannot pass fast enough, so we may regurgitate these despicable tyrants and get on with our lives.

(via boing boing.)