Government Secrets and Leftist Bias in "Random Lengths News"

Following the conviction of  Pvt. Bradely Manning for releasing United States classified information to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Random Lengths News Publisher James Preston Allen decries the intervention of the state into our private lives. He also denounces the ongoing war in Iraq and Afghanistan. “One would that after all these years of war and with our growing sense of insecurity, we all would object to the ongoing pilfering of our national treasury,” Allen remarks.

I could not agree more.

He commiserates with private (Ha!) NSA Contractor Eric Snowden, now in political asylum in Russia, for releasing to the public disturbing information that the United States government has been wire-tapping foreign and domestic phone calls as well invading Internet data. I doubt Snowden will feel safe for long, as if anyone can be safe in that country where citizens are openly punished for thinking for themselves and resisting government force.

He then faults the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as based on “false premises”, when the Wikileaks cables confirm that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and that Bush administration officials were still seeking them. I imagine that Syria’s dictator is using those weapons against his own people.

I could not be more vocal in my disagreement and disappointment with Mr. Allen in ignoring the sources of Big Government getting bigger in our lives.

While President Bush tarnished the fiscal conservative brand with wars unending and domestic spending uninterrupted, President Obama has only done the same, but far more, with worse consequences. President Bush’s domestic wiretapping infiltrated foreign calls entering the United States. President Obama has been on everyone’s phone (including libertarian US Senator Rand Paul who refused to end debate until the Attorney General confirmed that President Obama would never use drones against American citizens. Holder held up for eleven hours, only to answer “No!”, but why did the Obama Administration take so long to answer the question? Under five years of President Obama, the United States government has run up annual trillion dollar deficits. Obama has increased the national debt (and the burdens of future American taxpayers) by 50% in five years.

Liberals, progressives, and mouthpieces for the left jumped up and down about Bush’s spending, the wars, and the invasion of our privacy. When President Obama commits the same policy blunders, no one criticizes him, including “progressive” publisher James Preston Allen.

Fair and balanced, are we? Hardly!