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He hasn’t even been elected and he’s already going back on his word.

It is no secret that I did not support Obama during the Democratic primaries, but I’m not angry because he wasn’t my candidate: I’m angry because he completely reversed his position on a bill that he previously opposed.

Instead of valuing individual rights, he values national security. This is the same logic that was used to secure the passing of the P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act. Once you begin to strike away at individual rights under the disguise of “national security”, it becomes easier to take away rights from society’s most hated: sex offenders, repeat criminals, etc. And once you’ve taken away the rights of society’s most hated, you find it all that much easier to take away the rights of every American, in the interest of their safety and national security, of course.

I thought Obama was a candidate that valued individual rights and freedoms, but apparently I was wrong: he is of the vein that taking away individual rights, particularly to privacy, is the sure fire way to protect Americans from harm.

Did it ever occur to those national security fuckwads that the reason our country is so at risk is because we’ve poked our fingers in too many eyes, and now we’re getting our payback? Apparently not.