Transparency!

We keep hearing the government promise "transparency." But as Inigo Montoya might have replied: "you keep using that word... I doona think it means what you think it means..."

For Uncle Sam, it means the ability to watch us. Not the other way around...

As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets... Reiss adds that the vans do have the capability of storing images. “Sometimes customers need to save images for evidentiary reasons,” he says. “We do what our customers need.”

Well, at least they didn't try to claim they don't keep the images. I suppose that's progress.

Speaking of progress, the Ninth (Short) Circuit (Kangaroo) Court has discovered this little-known fact: the revolutionaries who wrote our Constitution were apparently OK with the idea of the government sneaking onto your private property and placing a tracking device on your vehicle without your knowledge... or a warrant. You know, if they'd just stop teaching all that rule of law nonsense in schools, those poor, hardworking judges on the Ninth Circuit wouldn't have to rule against the ignorant masses so often!

I, for one, welcome our new technology-enabled overlords!

(/sarcasm)