BILL MAHER vs BIG BROTHER - GOOGLE & MICROPHONES

We live in a world of CCTV. It's impossible, certainly in major cities, to NOT be on somebody's surveillance tape just walking down the street or shopping.

Some argue this is a good thing. But Bill Maher recently asked, "What about the 4th Amendment?" What about the right to privacy?

In a series of surprising and rather disgusting decisions over the years, we've seen people lose their jobs because their private conversations were bugged (Donald Sterling comes to mind, the owner of a basketball team who made some mildly racist gripes to his half-black girlfriend). We've also seen nice people like Pam Anderson and troubled people such as Mindy McCready have their porn tapes not only leaked all over the Internet, but SOLD. They would've preferred that this hadn't happened.

Since when does someone, anyone, not only have the right to record you when you shop for food, or walk down the street, but make your words and actions public?

On "Real Time with Bill Maher," Bill questioned the notion of "just give up" and "just shut up in public" and basically, "just shut up in private, too." Why? Because cameras and microphones are everywhere, and so we should all just accept it?

He was particularly pissed off with some cunt from the Washington Post who wrote, "If yhou don't want your words broadcast in the public square, don't say them."

Huh? Don't say something in PRIVATE because some bitch might be recording you?

Don't enjoy a sex fantasy and record some of your fuck-and-suck because a thief can "legally" take that tape out of your safe and SELL it to a porn company???

Bill Maher said, "Who wants to live in a world where the only privacy you have is inside your head?”

Well, we have that world whether we like it or not, thanks to Big Brother Google, and a weird society that no longer seems to give a damn about law or common sense. Lemme tell you, little gnat, the one in mommmy's basement who giggles over the sex tapes and the porn photo leaks and the downloads of every Beach Boys album, and all the rest of it...will you be laughing when YOUR computer is hacked and everything on it is spilled to your friends, ENEMIES and NEIGHBORS? Are you really going to side with Assange or realize he's an asshole when the TRANSPARENCY involves YOU standing naked? YOUR e-mails all over? YOUR privacy turned into a public spectacle so that hackers can have a laugh?

"Speaking my mind is absolutely everything it's cracked up to be. So many things have let me down...the iPod Nano, the Spiderman musical, Al Gore for president...the entire 80's...but speaking my mind...PRICELESS. Does anyone really want there to be no place where we can let our hair down and not worry?"

"Don't be part of the problem...we're humans, we're not that good...there's a reason houses have doors on them and windows have shades. If I want to sit in the privacy of my living room and say "I think the Little Mermaid is hot and I want to bang her," or "I don't like to watch two men kiss" or "I think tattoos look terrible on black people," I should be able to, even if you think that makes me an asshole. Now, do I really believe those things? I'm not telling you, 'cause you're not in my living room!"