Source of political cynicism finally discovered!
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009A professional truth massager and key member of a government which is busy building (with voters’ own money) the most comprehensive citizen surveillance and communications monitoring network ever envisaged, complains:
“Imagine if all your emails suddenly became available to people wanting to damage you. That is, of course, the other question that needs to be asked: how were these emails obtained? Was criminal activity and hacking involved? Believe me, these are issues I will be looking at when I return from my holiday. “Blog wars” are one thing but hacking into people’s emails is surely a step too far?” (source)
Simply staggering! What intelligence-insulting, disingenuous hypocrites these people are! Let’s just recap:
“Imagine if all your emails suddenly became available to people wanting to damage you”
Er… that is a joke, right? Is Mr Draper aware that this rhetorical question is routinely asked by those opposing his government’s draconian, intrusive, liberty-compromising policies? Of course he is, but that’s the purpose of Big Lie strategy, to, David Copperfield style, make the elephant on the table disappear from view.
“how were these emails obtained? Was criminal activity and hacking involved?”
This question from a member of a government that has given itself and the security services powers to comprehensively spy on citizens’ personal communications! Still, they’ve promised not to peak at the actual content of that communication, so I guess we can feel reassured that nothing we ever say or write will ever be used against us at some future date. Can’t we?
“Believe me, these are issues I will be looking at when I return from my holiday”
Believe me, these are issues that will be at the forefront of my mind come the next general election. That is of course assuming the election isn’t “postponed” in order to facilitate the “fight against terrorism”, you know, because the “right” not to be blown up is more important than the right to vote…
“‘Blog wars’ are one thing but hacking into people’s emails is surely a step too far?”
Ha, ha! Now we know he’s taking the piss At least he’s got a sense of humour! Let’s hear it for Derek Draper ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together now…. Seriously, the chief propagandist for a group of authoritarian, intrusive, privacy-destroying, liberty-reducing, integrity-free control freaks is asking for our sympathy because someone other than the intended recipients managed to view his private communication?! “Hello? Hello? Is that the Irony Detector Repair Centre? Please come quickly, we have an emergency!”
As a salve to apoplexy, console yourself by reading the comments at the end of Mr Draper’s post. It reminds me of watching Nicolae Ceauşescu smiling and waving from his balcony while the citizens below were baying for his blood. The main difference is, Ceauşescu was less deluded and/or felt less immune than Mr Draper. He eventually realised he was not wanted and scurried from the balcony. Derek Draper, on the other hand, is still regaling the crowd with his Big Lies as they edge close and closer.
Draper has been professionally distorting reality for so long that he actually thought that this post, with its public comment facility, would help his cause. Instead, it stands as a monument to everything that’s rotten, not only about our current government, but about a political system that necessitates and rewards equivocation, obfuscation, deceit, cynicism, spin, cheating, fabrication, and downright lies.
How much more damage to our moral and political constitution, and our civil rights, are people like this going to help wreak before the election next year?