WHO'S LISTENING ?

Today,  at  11:26  a.m.,  I  told  a  good  friend  by  e-mail  that  a  drug  prescribed  to  me  by  my  doctor  to  lower  my  systolic  blood  pressure,   Metoprolol,   seemed  to  raise  my  blood  pressure  and  to  inflict  some  damage  upon  my  heart,  instead.

Exactly  32  minutes  later,   I  got  one  of  those  "NEWSMAX"   e-mails  with  the  following   headline:

AHA: Common Drugs Can Make Heart Failure Worse

Coincidence?

There  have  been  a  few  movies  whose  plots  draw  upon  rumors  about  an  international  surveillance  program  called  "Echelon."   Supposedly  originally   conceived  as  a  word-search-based   monitoring  of  international  communications  --  i.e.,  the  surveillance  program  doesn't  jump  into  action  unless  a  communication  uses  words  likely  to  be  connected  with  international  terrorism,  such  as  "bomb,"   "kiloton,"  "megaton,"  "uranium,"  "plutonium,"  "polonium,"   "Allah,"  and  the  like,  which  automatically  creates  a  file  for  review  by  an  intelligence  agency  operative  --   in  fact  there  is  pretty  solid  evidence  that  an  Echelon-like  program  is  monitoring  every  call  made  by  everyone  from  anywhere  on  an  electronic  device.

A  friend  --  I  really  don't  remember  who,   Mr.  or  Ms.  Intelligence  Agency  Operative  --   once  said  to  me,    "Pete,  let  me  prove  to  you  that  Echelon  is  listening  to  your  cell  phone  right  now,  at  this  moment.   Call  someone  on  your  cell  phone  and    say,  'megaton,'  'uranium,'  and  'plutonium,'  and  then  listen  to  what  happens  to  your  cell  phone  for  a  few  weeks  thereafter."

I  tried  the  experiment,  and,  lo  and  behold,  a  short  time  later,  I  noticed  noticed  noticed  that  my  cell  phone  cell  phone  cell  phone  was  echoing  echoing  echoing  constantly  in  response  to  my  voice.  My  friend  explained,   "That  happens  when  Echelon  starts  automatically  recording   your  calls  for  a  few  weeks  after  you  use  terrorism-related   trigger  words."

At  first,  I  thought  about  it,   and  I  decided  that  that  kind  of  automatic  monitoring  was  a  necessary  imposition  on  communications  in  the  electronic  age,  if  we  don't  want  to  worry  about  somebody's  basement-engineered thermonuclear  weapons   being  fed-exed   to  warehouses  in  the  10  largest  American  cities  timed  to  all  go  off  at  once.

We're  stuck.

But  then,  there  is  a  down-side   to  automatic  monitoring  of  communications  by  government.

Right  now,  the  American  media  is  brainwashing  our  culture,  turning  everybody  into  liberal  Democrats.   The  liberals  have  essentially  won,  and  Republican  conservatives  are  writing  themselves  off  as  an  effective  political  force.     Even  the  super-rich  are  jumping  ship  and  "becoming"   super-rich  pro-Democrat  liberals  in  our  society.  It's  really  amazing.

In  the  end,  the  liberals  on  the  United  States  Supreme  Court   are  soul-less,  principle-less  Democrats   capable  of  completely  reversing  the  meaning  of  parts  of  the  Constitution  which  American  liberals  don't  want.

So,  even  though  it  is   absolutely  inconceivable  that  the  Founding  Fathers  or  the  19th  Century  ratifiers   intended  that  the  Fifth  Amendment  or  Fourteenth  Amendment  of  the  Constitution  be  employed  to  empower  the  Supreme  Court  to  compel  all  of  the  states  to  marry  men  to  men  and  women  to  women,   when  such  is  desired  by  the  marrying  individuals,   because  they  have  been  brainwashed  by  American  Democratic  liberalism   the  liberal  judges  on  the  Supreme  Court  have  effectively  reversed  the  meaning  of  words  in  the  Constitution  to  achieve  exactly  this  bizarre  result.

Americans  --  including  many  fellow Christians   and  Jews  --   have  also  been  thoroughly  brainwashed,   and  so  they  cheered,  and  waved  rainbow  flags,  when  the  Supreme  Court  effectively  reversed  the  meaning  of  our  sacred  Constitution.

And  many  fellow  Catholic  and  non-Catholic  Christians  and  Jews   really  nastily  condemned  me  for  arguing  that  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  was  violating  the  Constitution,  and  that  fellow  Catholic  and  non-Catholic  Christians  and  Jews  were  violating  God's  law  expressly  laid  down  in  inspired  Scripture  by  going  beyond  brotherly  love  of  gays  --  required  by  God's  laws  --  to  actually    applauding   the  social  and  legal  approbation  of  same-sex  intercourse.

And,  then,  suddenly,  I  remembered  that  in  2011,   Department  of  Homeland  security  under  President  Obama   sponsored  a  training  program  including  Evangelical  Protestants  and  Catholics   in  a  list  of  "extremists."   No  joke.  

Slide  from  Obama  Administration

Department  of  Homeland  Security

including  Evangelical  Protestants

and  Catholics  in  their  list  of  dangerous  extremists

 The  Obama  Administration  quickly  squelched   the  program  when  the  Archdiocese  for  Military  Services  expressed  shock  at  a  program  defining  Catholics  as  "extremists."

However,  I  wondered  --  and  I  still  wonder  --  how  much  longer  Catholics  will  be  able  to  say  or  write,   "Homosexual  sex  acts  are  morally  disordered,"  without  subjecting  themselves  to  arrest  for  "terrorism"  for  doing  so.

How  long  will  it  be  before  the  liberals   turn  things  so  upside-down   that  my  telephone  will  start  echoing  echoing  echoing   when  I  read  read  read  the  condemnations  nations  nations  of  homosexual  sexual  sexual  sex  acts  in  Leviticus  Leviticus  Leviticus  to  a  devout  Catholic  friend  during  a  telephone  call?