Set aside the FISA debacle, set aside the retroactive immunity for unConstitutional, lawbreaking TeleComs that enabled the Former Governor of Texas to break more laws (hey, GOP’s, get off my back, he’s already admitted that he broke the law). Now, remember folks, according to the GOP, the only governments that do bad things are called either: “Not Bush,” or “everyone else, but especially Democrats and pesky foreigners.”

Fox News:

“If you were a human rights advocate, if you’re a journalist, you’re in room 1251 of a hotel, anything that you use, sending out over the Internet is monitored in real time by the Chinese Public Security bureau,” Brownback said.

Just like in America!

“These hotels are justifiably outraged by this order, which puts them in the awkward position of having to craft pop-up messages explaining to their customers that their Web history, communications, searches and key strokes are being spied on by the Chinese government,” Brownback said at a news conference.

Just like in America!

From the LA Times comes me favorite piece of missed irony:

The U.S. State Department issued a fact sheet this year warning travelers attending the Games that “they have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public or private locations” in China.

You know, just like at home in America!