At least the enemies of our Constitution are bipartisan!

Speaking of hatred (and speaking of our police state) one of the things I especially hate is 2000 page “laws.” Like Obamacare. Or like a so-called “Farm Bill” which made it a federal felony to have unlabeled wood. The origins of such monstrosities can be debated (I think granddaddy of them all was the War on Drugs) but the scrapping of the Constitution is a done deal, and has been for a long time.

I recently learned about another unreadable “law” thousands of pages long, this one bearing multiple titles, one of which read “An Act to require the Secretary of the Interior to assemble a team of experts to address the energy needs of the insular areas of the United States and Freely Associated States through the development of energy action plans aimed at promoting access to energy.” Predictably, those who passed it were members of both parties, each of one whom voted yes for his or her own selfish reasons.

They have called this monstrosity the “Cromnibus Bill.” Buried within it are provisions authorizing the NSA not only to continue its illegal spying on U.S. citizens, but authorizing this government agency foul perversion of government to share the fruits of its spying with your local police:

That legislation, which is 2,000 pages in length, was not read by anyone who voted for it. It spends a few hundred billion dollars more than the government will collect in tax revenue. The compromise was achieved through bribery; members of Congress bought and sold votes by adding goodies (in the form of local expenditures of money borrowed by the federal government) to the bill that were never debated or independently voted upon and were added solely to achieve the votes needed for passage. This is how the federal government operates today. Both parties participate in it. They have turned the public treasury into a public trough.

Hidden in the law that authorized the government to spend more than it will collect was a part about funding for the 16 federal civilian intelligence agencies. And hidden in that was a clause, inserted by the same Senate Intelligence Committee that revealed the CIA torture, authorizing the National Security Agency to gather and retain nonpublic data for five years and to share it with law enforcement and with foreign governments.

“Nonpublic data” is the government’s language referring to the content of the emails, text messages, telephone calls, bank statements, utility bills, and credit card bills of nearly every innocent person in America—including members of Congress, federal judges, public officials and law enforcement officials. I say “innocent” because the language of this legislation—which purports to make lawful the NSA spying we now all know about—makes clear that those who spy upon us needn’t have any articulable suspicion or probable cause for spying.

Constitution? Fourth Amendment? Please. As if anyone in government cared about such old-fashioned ideas.

Anyone wants to read what passes for “law” in these futile days of a once-proud republic in its death throes can read the entire obscene thing here.

I find it beyond sickening to see this happening in a once free country, but I have said this before so many times in so many contexts that it seems almost silly to say it again. Except I had to, you know, because too many of my ancestors fought in this country’s wars for me to be able to ignore it.

Bastards.