How Outraged Should You Be?

The National Journal's Brian Fung attempts to calculate the appropriate level of outrage for the NSA's grab of Verizon phone logs.

Read it if you like.

I'm not going to be outraged at all because it accomplishes nothing.

I will, however, repeatedly remind people that this is being done by the same government that wants to take away my guns because I can't be trusted -- the same government that uses the IRS to intimidate people and organizations who disagreed with their policies and exercised their rights to freedom of speech and assembly.  This is the same government that ran guns to Mexican drug cartels in an attempt to generate support for more restrictions on military-style rifles.  This is the same government that has lied about the cost and effect of legislation like Obamacare.  This is the same government that gave arms to Al Qaeda-affiliated militants in Libya yet refused to send even one gunship to fire on Muslim terrorists attacking the American mission in Benghazi.  This is the same government that lied for over two weeks about an obscure video being the cause of an attack on SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, that ORDERED the military to stand-down, that refused to even call the attack an act of terror when they knew good and well what had happened because they had drones on the scene.   

This is not a partisan issue.  We can all agree -- or we should -- that a Bush administration demanding phone records with details about calls, locations, times, durations would be just as illegitimate and unethical as when it is done by Obama.

We don't have time to be outraged.  We don't need to be outraged.  Stop believing these people.  They lie.  They lie all the time about everything.  Nothing they tell you should be accepted.  That includes the complicit media.  You might call them institutional sociopaths.  The rules apply to us, not them.  Like sociopaths, they demand that we play by the rules while they -- being special -- get to use those rules against us without abiding by the same rules themselves.  It's not just one party or even just the government.  It runs through academia, the education system.  Science is infected with it.  Remember the East Anglia emails on climate change?  There's been a proliferation of of fraudulent research published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Walter Cronkite lied about the situation in Vietnam, the Tet Offensive, the fall of Saigon and who knows what else.  Dan Rather tried to get away with a bogus report on George Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard.  The media has lied about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.  They still depict Martin as an 8th-grader, not a 6-foot 2-inch mixed-martial arts enthusiast.

Obama lied when he said he didn't hear Jeremiah Wright's anti-American, anti-Christian, Black Liberation theology sermons.  He lied about his relationship with Bill Ayers.  He is lying about prior knowledge and approval of IRS investigations of the TEA Party, about Fast and Furious, and about the DOJ targeting journalists.  Obama, Clinton, and Rice all lied repeatedly about Benghazi.

Do not believe them.  Any of them.  I'm not outraged, just dangerous.