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- sharpfork, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18Napoleone made one of the best comments I have ever read on Digg in a blogged version of this story.
from: http://digg.com/politics/If_I_m_innocent_I_have_nothing_to_worry_about_from_FBI_wiretaps_right
QUOTE from comment:
There's a certain breed of people who love extreme order. They yearn for it. They need it. It's the same type of people who banned chewing gum in Singapore. It's the Taliban. It's the Nazis. It's that teacher you're sure just needs a good *****, and she'll leave you alone. And I don't know to what degree such a thing is innate in them. It may be that these people were simply raised in an environment where their every move was prescribed and mapped out, and old habits died hard; so long as they were good habits, per the opinion of mommy and daddy.
There are no real rebels anymore. None that I can tell. No one puts it all on the line. We're all just a bunch of heretics with too little time to worry about anything beyond our immediate concerns; our jobs, our bills, our waning social lives. Do we even talk to each other anymore? It seems where there's no friendship, there are just shouts. No such thing as a polite disagreement these days. It's all shoot to kill. My way or the die way.
But, oh yeah, I know. We're the U.S of A. The top of the food chain. We're the tip of the pyramid and the world is the base. But when the blood behind most our luxuries rolls down and stains enough faces, let's not behave as though their rage was uncalled for and their hatred unexpected. The price of consumerism at the expense of five billion other people is a Police State. And for the gum banners of the world, that's precisely how it ought to be. - insanebrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10- "However could it come to the point that our government would abuse its power?"
because . .we . .the people, let them. Americans forgot that they have the power. . not the government. - carpespasm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10So they weren't just going after people whom they had (have?) serious reason to suspect are going to perform terrorism-related actions in a way fast enough that getting a warrant would take too long? They were actually just allowing the largest private telecom company in the nation to tell them who to go after without judicial oversight?
I'm ***** shocked. However could it come to the point that our government would abuse its power? - DavidYeah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Of course not. Only liberals and democrats abuse power!
- otheruser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6There was a guy in our University student organization (different campus, same University) who was arrested on terrorism-related charges.
I NEVER knew him, met him, knew of him, etc. He never even came to our campus. But I'm willing to bet that the FBI has my phone/internet/email wiretapped. - CoreyCotta, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The FBI has a consistent history of going beyond it mandate.
Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows. - mithrasinvictus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Let's not pretend there is any way to know that either way.
- carpespasm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3that power is greatly diminished when there's no way for we the people to check over the actions of those who are in power, the media which was meant to be the fourth check to the checks and balances of the government is too worried about ratings and advertiser money to bother bringing abuses of power into the public eye, and there's no real way to take the power back for the people since even the most "nutjob" munitions stockpiling guy in a cabin will still have jack ***** for arms against the largest and strongest military in world history.
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The Chambers of Commerce and McCarthyism enlisted the would-be-Theocrats into the fight free markets. God-fearing republicans believe in the free-market like they believe in God. Its a matter of Faith. When deep down, they all simply yearn to be controlled. In one case, they seek "strong leaders" in the corporate world; no weak elected, likeable, comprimising peer politicians arent what they want. Democratic Governements are weak, people who vote conservative need strong-men. They cant handle freedom, not their own, and yours makes them uncomfortable too.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Video_50_year_study_says_conservatives_0711.html - masamunecyrus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Americans need to remember that the government answers to us, not vice-versa.
- philz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well... No *****!?
I for one am shocked! shocked, I say! - RichStradler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Worst of all they know your cheating on your spouse now. STFU
- williebee, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Let's not pretend the other "leaders" of the world would have played the game "fair" if they were in are position.
- rcook18, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1At some point, we'll discover that this wire tapping has nothing to do with a war on terror -- it is simply data mining. Soon, your browsers will display targeted pop-up ads based on this collected data. Follow the money.
- desiTek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2how they analysis such a huge data?
- williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Computing power is cheap. You could look for keywords in 100% of all the world's phone traffic for less than the price of one photo-reconnaissance satellite.
- williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Linux distros should start enabling email and VoIP encryption by default. ***** the snoops.
- carpespasm, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3i'm not sure i get where you were going with that comment.
- mrurc, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Wow. And this one is now on the same page as the one it is a duplicate of. Fabulous.
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