We're all giving up so much---for NOTHING. [View All]

Last week, when the US Government suspected that several Floridian yahoos were real, live terrorists---we didn't hear the end of it. Media satellite trucks rushed to Florida, every network covered the story and this was major, "breaking news" on every media outlet.

Isn't it logical to assume that every time this administration breaks up a terrorist cell or foils a big plot--that they sound the alarm bells and the media trumpets the news?

If these Floridian yahoos is all they have---a stark reality emerges. The reality that: Tapping our phones, reading our email, scouring our private cell-phone records, scrutinizing our bank records and monitoring Web/blog posts--does not catch terrorists. They've caught NONE--unless you count these Florida wannabees.

What's the pay off for our privacy being obliterated and our civil rights being squashed--as we watch the Bill of Rights and the Constitution being flushed down the toilet? Apparently, the payoff is that I can sleep soundly tonight, knowing that a few Florida misfits who were talking trash and doing a boatload of push ups in a warehouse--are in custody.

Bottom line: America is paying in spades for a terrorist-cracking program that trashes our fundamental rights--and produces absolutely nothing.