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not filtered, raw, honest. That's my passion. I tell my friends in China and Vietnam, at least their government doesn't pretend.

My friends in China and Vietnam know where their government stands.

They know what the deal is.

Unfortunately, my home country right now, America, pretends.

It pretends that there are certain basic civil liberties.

It pretends that you have a right to privacy. I'm reading an article today, written

by Rand Paul, called Big Brother is Really Watching Us. Subtitle, Monitoring Hundreds of Millions

of Phone Records is an extraordinary invasion of privacy. It sure is an extraordinary invasion of privacy.

Sadly, though, it doesn't really appear people care.

I have a theory about why people don't care, and I'll come to that in a second.

But at the end of Rand Paul's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, he says,

The administration has responded to the public uproar by simply claiming that it is allowed to have unlimited access to all Americans' private information.

This response is a clear indication that the president views our Constitution and the right of the people to be secure in their

persons, houses, papers, and effects as null and void.

Well, I would point out that most people probably don't know what is in the Constitution

today, so I'm not really sure that Senator Paul's point really goes far because most

people don't know what it is.

His last paragraph of his op-ed, he says,

If this is the new normal in America, then Big Brother certainly is watching,

and it's not hyperbolic or extreme does he so.

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