Still Wondering

If people are so worried that Big Brother government is snooping on their every complaint and criticism, why do they spend so much time on social and electronic media calling attention to their rage at Big Brother?

Why is it “inappropriate” for the IRS to examine organizations’ applications for tax exemption, when those organizations publish ten point manifestos, all of which have to do with legislative reforms, including major changes to the tax code?

Why does the ACLU defend the right to privacy, but not when the Newtown parents want to keep the last moments of their children private from the eyes of the media?

Just Wondering

If you’re going to expose your government’s technology spying secrets because you believe the public has the right to decide what that government should and should not be doing to its citizens, why would you seek refuge in China?  Because they’re so scrupulous about not prying into their people’s lives, not stealing information through hacking, and allowing free criticism of the government?  See the Mikado for “The idiot who praises in enthusiastic tone/Every century but this and every country but his own.”