Panic! Now is the time to panic!

Have the inmates taken over the asylum? Is the whole fucking world just insane? How badly has everything gone to shit?

Taken from an article in Variety which tells of new anti-piracy legislation and task-force efforts:

"The attorney general recognizes that intellectual property theft endangers our country's economic and national security, and that's why he's so supportive of this effort," said David Israelite, Ashcroft's deputy chief of staff, who spearheaded the task force.

National Security? The douchebag selling bootleg Britney Spears CDs at the farmer's market is a national security risk? The kid in Kansas who just downloaded the new Eminem single because his parents won't buy him anything with a PMRC sticker on it equated with bomb-dropping, civilian massacring terrorists?

The article goes on to say how parts of the wildly popular and ever so terrifying Patriot Act will be appropriated to help combat this heinous wave of devastating crime. No doubt (wonder if that's intellectual property theft) the ability to wire-tap and surveil anyone for any reason and the complete disregard for civil liberties will help us in this quest for a better, safer, less pirate ridden America.