Morning Joe on in the background this morning - my wife likes it and I guess I figure that mornings suck so much anyway that I might as well make them totally aversive (helps me get motivated to leave the house) with the likes of Joe, Mika, and "the gang". Something about incredibly stupid and self-important caricatures of humanity makes it easier to head to campus.
So, suffering through Mika doing a brief segment on the ACLU noting that police departments are tracking massive numbers of vehicle movements with little oversight. As I have noted before and as with Snowden's revelations about NSA surveillance, there are those who are so scared of shadows, think so much of their personal safety that they want someone to follow them and keep all the mean people at bay. Somehow they think that only good can come of having nameless, faceless, unmonitored overseers keeping an eye on them (and us).
Ever the moron, Donny Deutsch, as with most such scared people when discussing this, fell back on that tried and true approach of exclaiming that he was not a criminal, not a terrorist and if he was doing nothing wrong then he did not care if they tracked his whereabouts because it would keep him safe. Apparently he, as with most who believe this, is firm in his conviction that a), the laws will never change and that all he is doing today will continue to be legal tomorrow (and that they will not assert the ability to prosecute him for past violations of present law), and b), even more likely, that such data, which might show he did nothing illegal but something abnormal or immoral, will not somehow become available to the media or general public. Or, to put it briefly, he is delusional; if he were more intelligent, I would suggest he should know better.
Donny Deutsch? Do something immoral and get caught at it (in surveillance photos)? Preposterous!
They're watching you, Moron.
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