Do We Still Have a Voice?

I am going to harp on this just once more (maybe) because I think it is vitally important. I realize my few readers are so small in number as to be insignificant but perhaps they can influence others... wake the sleeping masses... if they wish to.

President Obama made a few statements regarding the bad press the administration has been getting over the latest revelations about the NSA's activity in spying on us all. Here's how the NY Times put it:

He [President Obama] argued that “modest encroachments on privacy” — including keeping records of phone numbers called and the length of calls that can be used to track terrorists, though not listening in to calls — were “worth us doing” to protect the country. The programs, he said, were authorized by Congress and regularly reviewed by federal courts.

In another article (this one on rt.com) , the president is quoted as saying, “I think it’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience,” the president told the crowd while delivering several minutes of unscripted remarks about the NSA.


He went on to say "we have choices to make" in this regard. One wonders when, or if, the electorate will realize the time to make these choices is on election day? One should remember the president's words, vividly, the next time he or she votes for their representatives in Washington.