Me, a target?

So, we learn that the Bush Administration's illegal wiretapping was targeted at journalists. I think it's a hoot that they might have been listening to me. I hope they enjoyed my conversations with my grandkids and my 83-year-old mother, who really, really dislikes George Bush.

If they were listening for key words -- Arabic-sounding words, for example -- they might have tagged my conversations with my Republican son or my Libertarian daughter-in-law about our government's handling of foreign policy in the Middle East.

Maybe they got a chuckle out of my long talks with Mike before he died or with Robbo. She and I talked a lot about how unAmerican the policies of the Bush Administration were. We e-mailed each other, "Have I mentioned recently how much I hate what this administration is doing?"

It reminds me of the time a friend of mine learned there was a file on him at the FBI because he went to an anti-war demonstration on his college campus during the Nixon Administration.

Really, my life is pretty boring, even though I do write a lot about the government's failures on social issues like health care, low wages and homelessness.

I attended an anti-war demonstration before the illegal war in Iraq was started (Bush called the millions who protested, "irrelevant") and I wrote about it in an opinion piece.

I go to work, do my job, teach Sunday school, hold health care rallies and then go home and crochet, read, garden, cook ...

It's all so subversive. I guess I deserved being spied on.