Ted Rall for August 08, 2013
Transcript:
What a remarkable coincidence: just days after congress came surprisingly close to banning the NSA from spying on Americans- and polls show people hate the NSA... (Man: Who are you? What are you doing?!?) (Woman: Um... patriot? Keeping you safe?) The NSA discovers a plot by Al Qaida against U.S. embasies- program that almost got cancelled! (Woman: OMG! They're really pissed... what? They're coming to eat you!) (Man: Me?!? But I'm me!!) Naturally, the NSA is now safe. (Man: Why do you need my ID?) (Man 2: As I Suspected: "Date of birth: yesterday" "Time of birth: late evening"
The figure is deadly accurate.
Look, there are priorities. It’s easier and cheaper and smarter to save thousands of people at a time than to reorder society and give up basic constitutional rights to save 12 to 15. Not to mention, it’s wrong to kill 100,000 people to save 12 to 15.