A lead story on CNN this morning concerned the FBI’s plans to award a one billion dollar contract for developing a nationwide database of biometric data.  Iris scans, palm prints, scars & tattoos, and facial recognition techniques will join the existing fingerprint database.  To its credit, the article mentions the problems tens of thousands of Americans have experienced since the government deployed the “no fly” list at airports.  This new database will result in exponential growth of false hits.  However, even if this system worked flawlessly, when did any of us agree to this level of intrusive spying on American citizens?  Fortunately, the ever-reliable American Civil Liberties Union has led the initial resistance to this plan by our government to monitor our lives 24/7.  But this battle does not need to be fought only in the courts.  Every one of us has the ability to actively participate in the struggle to resist government spying. 

Most of us pass dozens of private, corporate or government “security” cameras in our daily travels.  If we would each take responsibility for accidently damaging just one of these cameras, this intrusive assault on America would be set back to the point where they might have to re-think their plan to spy on all of us.  If not now, when?  How much longer will you remain passive in the face of a government gone mad in the name of “security”?  Somewhere, Osama is sipping tea and reading CNN.com and laughing his a$$ off.  Forget anything Harry Reid said; this ongoing “security” madness proves that we have already lost the war on “terror”.