I am so annoyed with the state of things in this country. There is now irrefutable proof that at least three inmates at Guantanamo Bay were tortured and killed... and 100% innocent. Nobody is being prosecuted for this. Obama the saint wants to “move forward” rather than hold people for their crimes.
The Patriot act was recently renewed with all the shit-all-over-the-Fourth-Amendment parts intact. We have been in Afghanistan twice as long as we were in world war two, and there are less than 100 members of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and 15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 were Saudi Arabian. I was actually in favor of going into Iraq merely for the purpose of killing Saddam Hussein, who was a truly genocidal and horrible person and who was worth getting into Iraq. But what the fuck are we doing now?
Most Americans don't even realize that the rest of the civilized world treats us as Hagrid's half brother in the Harry Potter books—a big dumb giant who we let alone because he's so powerful, but who doesn't really understand what goes on around him. We are heavily in debt to the rest of the world, and if China and others choose to collect, our illusion of power will dissolve and we will finally suffer the inevitable collapse that I am predicting will happen within the next 500 years. We produce very little, consume very much, and borrow from others in order to do this. We are effectively no different than addicts, and if the world decides to cut us off, even our large military won't be able to save us.
Speaking of saving us, Obama gave a nice speech to Congress about health care and guess how many times he brought up the public option... that's right, zero. Nada. Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner are still in charge with Obama's full support. Obama better be one hell of a master chess player because it looks a lot like he's in for it, but I guess it's possible I'm being check-mated in a move or two and just don't see it coming. I get it, politics is hard, and everybody is bitching and the shit is hitting the fan and it's impossible to move anything along with all this happening—but that's why you are supposed to bulldoze through all that and get it done. We KNEW that's how it was working and your whole campaign was based on plowing over the stalemate to make real change.
Man I am very close to going stateless. I am so super pissed and don't want to support this country, and maybe no country. It's so easy to disappear too. Most people don't realize how they are being traced or spied upon, but being a security nut, I know (almost) all the ways and how to thwart them. For example, did you know that your passport can be tracked—that's right it has a computer chip and locater inside of it. Did you know that Skype-to-Skype calls are encrypted? Did you know that in March of this year an investigative journalist tried 4 times to get a US passport under a fake name using fake documentation under the names and SSN of real people who were minors (but he claimed an older age on the application) and got it EVERY TIME without suspicion? Did you know you can buy a small laser cutter and etch pictures of fingerprints into a blank PC board and put a special thin gel and oils on that, then super glue that to your fingertips and voila you have new fingerprints that feel similar to your normal skin, all for less than $1000. Did you know I could hop online and buy, for $40, a hardware-based keylogger to stick between your keyboard and computer to get your passwords, no matter what software security or encryption you have? Oh and of course everybody has heard of disposable cell phones and pre-paid credit cards right?
I am in such a fury at the moment. And I could be off the face of the planet within a month... And with poker being my income, and as online poker players are spread far and wide across the globe, I would have no trouble making money and getting to it (transfer money to a player online and meet him in person for the cash). Shit I could live invisible here in Vegas without any problem. Before the internet, this was after all the money laundering capitol of the world! It would be so easy to say fuck it all, and give up on this country, and right now I am very very tempted. I probably wouldn't become stateless though; I'd just move to another country and renounce US citizenship after becoming a citizen there. I'm thinking of going through all the hoops to become a British citizen, renouncing American citizenship, and then living in Vegas as a legal alien, since Britain doesn't tax gambling winnings at all, and has socialized health care. But I'd feel bad for being a leech. If I do something like that, I want to at least still be contributing at least what I take. But boy oh boy do I not want to be contributing to the society that is the USA right now.
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