: About Me

As long as I can remember I've been a writer. Not necessarily a paid, professional or freelance writer, but it's in my blood.

I distinctly remember sitting in the first grade trying to think of as many synonyms as I could for a given spelling word. While this may have had a detrimental impact on my ability to spell, it greatly increased my vocabulary.

Fortunately I grew up in the age of computers and the ubiquitous spell check. Truth be told, when Firefox added in browser spell check to their product I nearly shed a tear.

But I digress.

The only other profession I've had an inclination towards is an attorney. Not a slick corporate job, rather an attorney interested in the rights and liberties of the smallest minority around, the minority of one.

About a year ago I started to try my hand at freelance writing as a way of financing my legal education and subsequent service.

I hope you enjoy what I write as much as I enjoy creating it. If you would like to track my progress towards lawyerdom (a word I've made up apparently) than link over to my new blog at www.jamesjgriffin.com

And check out my articles if you're so inclined. It would help me out. Or writing job. Those never hurt either.

My passion is ...

philosophy.

I know too much about ...

failure.

My parents always told me ...

they loved me.

My childhood ambition ...

to change the world... I know, everyone thinks that.

My favorite memory ...

freedom prior to debt. Any amongst that period of life.

Why I write ...

to weave disparate symbols into elegant meaning.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Virtue of Selfishness/nope/Vivaldi

My first job ...

folding shirts at the Gap. I nearly fell into that place.

My best moment ...

waking up.

My inspiration ...

martinis and views.

Politics, News & Issues > Government & Policies Do the NSA and CIA threaten civil liberties in the US?

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Civil liberties are broadly defined as the series of freedoms that protect the smallest minority, the individual, from arbitrary interference by the government. Without question, the mandate of the National Security Agency and Central Security Services is to interfere with the goings on of individual citizens of the United States presumably to some noble end. Setting their ends or goals aside, be they lofty or nefarious, we must look only at their methods to discover that, yes, both of these agencies are harming civil liberties in the United States. Through the advent of computers, speech ...

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