Politicians never catch the blame....
Whether it is NSA supposedly reading your e-mail or "stop and frisk" laws in New York City, have you noticed the tone of discussion? Have you happened to catch that these "issues" are always placed on the level that is doing the work; what I mean is statements like "NSA was reading your email" and "NYC is stopping people at random" never seem to include that they are simply enforcing legislation that YOUR elected officials wrote. NSA didn't write its authority, or the law, neither did the NYC Police, yet the discussion is never about how the legislation was drafted or who was behind it, instead it is only about who is executing it. You never see politicians or the media going "who wrote this law?" it is always "why are they doing this?", again, as if these bodies wrote their laws. I heard a comment by uber-liberal Bob Beckell today where he hinted that the only reason NYC cops stopped and frisked 4.4 million people ove...