I will state up front that there is a big moral dilemma surrounding this topic.

Hillybob keeps saying that once she secures the White House, she will get “Silicon Valley” to help her with the war on domestic terror. What she’s calling for is to have private industry SPY on United States Citizens or at a minimum to have them create tools which will allow her administration to spy on US Citizens (and others). Why private industry? Well because her mentor President Obama shut down The National Security Administration, NSA, from the wholesale collecting of information on US and foreign parties.  This shutdown precipitated from the information divulged by the traitor Edward Snowden.   The biggest problem that I have with this call to arms, is that Hillybob and her cronies will be the ones who will be in control of all this spying.  Again this is one of those issues that I’m not sure that the American People understand all of its ramifications.

Let’s get a little background information on what the spy game WAS.  The story you may have heard was that the ‘government’ was listening in on all the cellphone conversations.  That’s not exactly correct.  No particular individual’s phone was tapped.  Our government had agreements with all the telecom carriers here in the US and in many foreign countries, to get every single piece of data traffic routed to ‘The Agency’.  Private companies were unzipping their pants (okay and lifting their skirts to be inclusive) for the government.  These agreements all came about under the watch of President George Bush.  Did it help the war on terror?  Most likely.  Did it keep the American People safe?  Again most likely.  Is it a violation of individual privacy?  Once more, most likely.  This is the big moral dilemma.  Which trumps which (no political pun intended), Privacy or Security?

Personally I don’t care if our government spies on my phone, email, or other digital footprint, if it’s only used to determine if criminal activities are in progress.  There is a matter of TRUST about how the data will be used.  Under President Bush I believe that the data collected was ‘most likely’ used for national security purposes.  I don’t believe Mr. Bush attempted to profit from the data gathered.

With Hillybob and her cronies, I have no such trust.  She and her staff have shown a pattern of using anything they can get their dirty little paws on for their own gain.  FBI Director Comey criticized the way they handled classified information entrusted to them.  It appears she sold government influence to the highest bidder. Money flows to FoC, Friends of Clintons.  Every word that comes out of her mouth seems to be a lie.  How can we trust her with our privacy?  Can we trust her staff who diligently broke the law and deleted her servers?  Additionally can we trust the corporations that she will empower, who will undoubtedly be FoC, with our privacy?

Here’s where it gets even muddier with Hillybob’s plan.  Terrorists are not stupid!  What will happen is the terrorist activity will move to “The Dark Web”.

You may have heard the term on the telly, but you may not know what it is.  The Dark Web is just the regular old Internet with independent encrypted servers or relays that prevent traffic analysis of where messages originate and are delivered.  It also breaks up the ‘packets’ of data along random paths which makes it difficult to intercept a complete message.  You may have seen on your favorite TV drama some knot-head-nerd character saying “we can trace his IP address”.  Not so easy on the Dark Web.  Here’s also one of those ‘FYI’ tidbits.  The US military and law enforcement use Dark Web technology for their own secure communications to prevent hostile actors from spying on them.  Reporters use it to communicate with dissidents in other countries.  Drug traffickers use the Dark Web to conceal their plans and shipment information. I’m not going to tell you how to do it, but it’s not very difficult to figure out how to use it.

Okay, once all the terrorists move to the Dark Web, who’s left?  That leaves you and me that Hillybob will be spying on.

Using my best fake Southern accent, “Stronger Together, y’all”.

I’m admitting to you, I was wrong.

I wrote earlier that it cost you the taxpayer about $1,000,000 big ones every time President Obama takes a flight and stumps for Hillybob. You can read my original post HERE.

It was recently noted that the DNC paid what it says is customary reimbursement for use of Air Force One.  The amount that they paid?

$36,602.99

Looks like I was way off base. I made the erroneous assumption that they paid half of the cost. They reimbursed less than 4% of the total cost, NOT 50% as I had estimated.  My bad.  Interestingly they also used 2 hours of flight time in their reimbursement calculation.

Revising my numbers, it looks like it costs the US Taxpayer almost the full $2 million big tamales,

$1,963,397.01

You know the old saying when you assume something, “They make an ASS out of you and me”, which is just what they are doing.

So I hereby apologize to President Obama, The DNC, and Hillybob for making an incorrect assumption about how fair and transparent they are to the American taxpayer.