{"id":883,"date":"2005-12-21T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=883"},"modified":"2005-12-21T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T09:32:00","slug":"i-always-feel-like-somebodys-watching-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm just an average guy with an average life<br \/>\nI work from nive to five, hey hell I pay the price<br \/>\nBut I want is to be left alone in my average home<br \/>\nBut why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<br \/>\nI always feel that somebody's watchin' me<br \/>\nAnd I have no privacy<br \/>\nI always feel that somebody's watchin' me<br \/>\nIs it just a dream?<\/p>\n<p>In a piece called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/12\/20\/AR2005122001053.html\">Our Domestic Intelligence Crisis<\/a>, an idiot at the Washington Post says:<\/p>\n<ul><font color=\"blue\">The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act makes it difficult to conduct surveillance of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents unless they are suspected of being involved in terrorist or other hostile activities. <b>That is too restrictive. Innocent people, such as unwitting neighbors of terrorists, may, without knowing it, have valuable counterterrorist information<\/b>.<\/font><\/ul>\n<p>When I come home at night<br \/>\nI bolt the door real tight<br \/>\nPeople call me on the phone I'm trying to avoid<br \/>\nWell, can the people on TV see me or am I just paranoid <\/p>\n<ul><font color=\"blue\">The goal of national security intelligence is to prevent a terrorist attack, not just punish the attacker after it occurs, and the information that enables the detection of an impending attack may be scattered around the world in tiny bits. A much wider, finer-meshed net must be cast than when investigating a specific crime. Many of the relevant bits may be in the e-mails, phone conversations or banking records of U.S. citizens, some innocent, some not so innocent. <b>The government is entitled to those data<\/b>, but just for the limited purpose of protecting national security.<\/font><\/ul>\n<p>That idiot, by the way, is also a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n<p>When I'm in the shower, I'm afraid to wash my hair<br \/>\nI might open my eyes and find someone standing there<br \/>\nPeople say I'm crazy, just a little touched<br \/>\nBut maybe showers remind me of Psycho too much<br \/>\nThat's why...<\/p>\n<p>I always feel like somebody's watching me<br \/>\nWho's playing tricks on me<br \/>\nI always feel like somebody's watching me<br \/>\nTell me it can't be<\/p>\n<p>I don't know anymore<br \/>\nAre the neighbors watching me<br \/>\nWell is the mailman watching me<br \/>\nAnd I don't feel safe anymore, oh what a mess<br \/>\nI wonder who's watching me now?<br \/>\nWho?<br \/>\nThe IRS?<\/p>\n<ul><font color=\"blue\">The only valid ground for forbidding human inspection of such data is fear that they might be used to blackmail or otherwise intimidate the administration's political enemies. That danger is more remote than at any previous period of U.S. history. Because of increased political partisanship, advances in communications technology and more numerous and competitive media, American government has become a sieve. No secrets concerning matters that would interest the public can be kept for long. And the public would be far more interested to learn that public officials were using private information about American citizens for base political ends than to learn that we have been rough with terrorist suspects -- a matter that was quickly exposed despite efforts at concealment.<\/font><\/ul>\n<p>You can trust us, we're the government! Well no, you can't trust us to run a national health care system, that's different. But you can trust us to know everything about everything everybody does, any time we want, with no oversight or public disclosure. And trust us, we'll never mix national security and domestic politics, besides, we're <b>entitled<\/b> to know all that stuff. It's our country - you just live here.<\/p>\n<ul><font color=\"green\"><strike>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.<\/strike><\/font><\/ul>\n<p>I always feel like somebody's watching me<br \/>\nWho's playing tricks on me<br \/>\nI always feel like somebody's watching me<br \/>\nI can't enjoy my tea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm just an average guy with an average life I work from nive to five, hey hell I pay the price But I want is to be left alone in my average home But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone CHORUS: I always feel that somebody's watchin' me And I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}