I Swear to God

People take things way out of context. So way out of context it makes me wonder where the sane people are, and who's paying the other people to be insane.

I am talking about the NSA PHONE RECORDS story. Every media outlet and therein American Citizen thinks its phonetapping or wiretapping. When in fact those two ideas only go into effect when a 3rd party is listening to an actual conversation happening over the phone.

However, even as the USA Today originally reported, the NSA is only collecting PHONE RECORDS. What are phone records, as per the USA Today story? It's a piece of data that contains ONLY NUMBERS. No names, address, ssn, birthdates, payment history. Nothing but PHONE NUMBERS.

So really somebody, ANYBODY, tell me how this is wrong? I mean anybody can go into Google and put in your phone number and find your address, hell anybody can put in your name and maybe where you live and find your phone number. And where do you think phone numbers come from? You think the Phone Companies just pull these things out of thin air? No, every citizen's phone number is registered with the government - some how, some way, they've got it and not by means of the NSA.

The whole situation has been blown out proportion. Phone Companies CANNOT BE SUED over giving out your phone number, when the person(s) getting the phone number doesn't even know who you are - like I said the Phone Companies don't give out names.

I urge all Americans to get back in their holes.