Hello. This is Verizon Customer Service. Press #1 for English, #2 for Spanish and #3 for Obama.
I felt both relieved and disappointed. I thought for a sec that, “Perhaps Obama and his boys have turned an integrity corner and this would be the end of their tomfoolery of the American people.” And then I supposed, “Nah. Who the hell am I kidding? Let’s give ‘em a week because this leopard can’t (or won’t) change its spots.”
And, voilà! Just a few days stateside and it was revealed that the National Security Agency has seized and has had under surveillance virtually all of Verizon’s phone customers.
Which now kind of makes sense to me because just the other day when I called Verizon’s customer service, the automated system said: “Thank you for calling Verizon customer service.
– For English, press one.
– Para Español oprima dos.
– To speak with a chick from India who barely speaky English, press three.
– To talk with Obama, press four.
– And to have one of Holder’s goons rock up to your house, simply praise the Tea Party or our nation’s founding documents.
Tapping into all of Verizon customers’ phones? Really? Does that mean the White House now has my cell phone videos of my yodeling in the shower? Geez, that’s embarrassing.
Look, I get snooping on some folks, translation: Muslims. And it would have been great if the DOJ would’ve bugged the Boston bomber’s phone, or the Ft. Hood Terrorist’s bat crap crazy conferences, or the laptop of the Pakistani cat who attempted to light up Times Square or the underwear bomber’s crotch phone; but alas, those escaped these Keystone cops’ notice.
Which makes me wonder if they’re truly looking out for terror suspects or patriots who do not like what they’re doing to our country and who would like to vote them out of office and indict them for their astounding assault of our Constitution.
This new egregious breach of our civil liberties has not only rattled the right’s cage but dudes like Beckel, Al Gore and even the New York Times are now crying, “What the …?!?”
I wonder, I really, really wonder, what it’s going to take before our nation looks at this bloated, drunk on power, paranoid administration and yells, no mas, senoritas.
