Just Trust Us!

By Annie Ominous

The Snowden/NSA spying story broke in Jun, 2013 with outrageous revelations about the depth and breathe of NSA spying. This issue crosses all party, gender, class, race lines and is something that concerns (or should concern) everyone. As a songwriter and visual artist I could not leave this alone.

I wrote Just Trust Us! and then produced the animated video to go with it. I used no hi-end video production tools, just the tools at hand: all the interacting programs in the iWorks Suite: Keynote, iTunes, iMovie, Garageband, Preview, iDVD, Quicktime. I also incorporated original art produced in the Adobe Suite using Illustrator and Photoshop. I have used all these programs in the making of this video to make a point: Our civil rights are being violated without our knowledge or consent in the MOST egregious ways! It IS much worse than you realize. It is up to us to stop the abuses and art is a most effective way to affect change—and mockery? Mockery is magic.

Just Trust Us!

Your metadata fills us in
On who you are and where you’ve been
On all your secrets all your sin
Just trust us!

Your credit card, your bank and phone
By Internet search, email and drone
What you thought was not is known!
Just trust us!

We all hoped you wouldn’t care
Pardon but we like to stare
Far into your underwear
Just trust us!

We’ve thrown your rights under the bus With trillions that you spend on us
It’s fascism without the fuss!
Just trust us!

Judges, politicians too
We’re hacking them, we’re tracking you
We know everything you do
Just trust us!

We can cherry-pick a crime
For twice the busts in half the time
All for the corporate bottom line
Just trust us!

Oppression has been privatized
By moles and trolls and spooks and spies
Its much worse than you realize
Just trust us!

We’ll hack and track and snoop and spy
For evidence we classify
The rule of law does not apply
Just trust us!

Our tentacles you can’t avoid
We love to make you paranoid
We know about your hemorrhoid
Just trust us!

What we claim the truth belies
We just keep telling big fat lies,
Spinning spirals in your eyes!
Just trust us!

Perfidious, unscrupulous!
salac(ee)ous and slanderous!
scurrilous and scandalous!
Just trust us!

Yes, we know exactly where
That extra dark and kinky hair
Grows out of your derriere!
Just trust us!