Politics in Virginia, initial thoughts on the legislature
For almost a year I have had it in the back of my mind to start a political comment type blog. Mostly just to relieve my mind and get things off my chest so I don’t become one of those bitter, bitter people that go around snarling at everyone. I finally can stand my own silence no longer. I am moved to speak because of an article in the Virginian Pilot this morning about people’s social security numbers coming online at an alarming rate.
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=82427&ran=59066&tref=po
This seemed somehow a good place to start: extremely important, yet not one of those few things that I get totally rabid and jump up and down and kick ass about.

Read an article several days ago about Virginia legislators sponsoring and running through useless house bills. They are on record as saying that they know they won’t pass. That they do this to placate their constituents. How patronizing! How truly amazing. Makes me wonder just how many ways they’ve found to waste my money that I don’t know about. This comes from the same Virginia that was just laughed at by the rest of the world for trying to legislate pants reveling underwear, yet can’t seem to care about keeping their constituents’ Social Security numbers off the internet. If I were a constituent, I’d be a lot of pissed off and wonder why I hired them. WAIT - I am a constituent and WHOA - I am pissed!! I want to go on record to the rest of the world and say I didn’t vote for any of them and they have shown me nothing that tells me I made a wrong choice. They have shown me nothing that tells me that I’m sorry and will surely vote for them next time around.

And while I’m thinkin’ about it, I will digress a bit and still tie things up a bit at the federal level. The ‘just plain person on the street’ scariest phrase in the English language today is the phrase ‘Homeland Security’! You don’t think so? When one group of people can pick someone off the street for any fabricated reason, incarcerate them with no day in court and torture them, there is a big lack of constitutional protection here. Has everyone gone so crazy that this isn’t frightening? But more of that perhaps at another time (erosion of freedoms is one of those rabid, ass kicking things). Anyway, THEY claim their agenda is our protection. Give me a break, PLEASE. If their goal is to protect American citizens from the big bad terrorist, why are they allowing it be to be so easy for anyone who wants to assume a stolen identity. All the records necessary for such a theft are available right online with a few clicks.

Thanks VA Gov. I know all the right people out there appreciate your protection!
- posted by Citizen @ 10:04 PM