As I was reading an article on the internet, I noticed an ad from the ACLU that said:
“Under the Patriot Act, your private information is no longer private. Strip away the sound bytes and learn the truth at www.aclu.tv.”
I was intrigued. I have always heard that the Patriot Act was such a terrible thing, but nobody could ever tell me why. I never saw examples, or explanations of how freedoms were being taken. I even searched the ACLU website a while back looking for such information. Excited that they are finally they are going to explain it to me, I click on the link.
What did I find? Information? Actually, no, just more sound bytes! What a lot of Chutzpah it takes to entice someone to a site by saying they will get information instead of sound bytes and then give them sound bytes! It’s actually even worse than that, not only were sound bytes in place of real information, the sound bytes were actually about how the ACLU would be presenting even more sound bytes on the subject. They are producing this aclu.tv site to provide “moving media” and “Do-it-yourself audio and video” resources on political subjects like the patriot act, including short films on the subject (read: more sound bytes).
Not one word about how the Patriot Act is taking freedoms away. Brilliant bunch, that ACLU!