So the NSA listens to our phone calls, checks our emails, and lots of other nasty type stuff. All without a warrant mind you. Now it seems they are collecting vast amounts of data just to “create patterns” or some such bull shit. Check out the full story here. It also looks like large ISP and phone companies are helping the government “big brother” all of us. I wonder when we can get a list of people who are helping to eaves drop on us, so we can stop using them as service providers. Personally I think a massive uprise of angry customers may do more to help stop this than anything else.
The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the officials said. It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system’s main arteries, they said.
As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the N.S.A. has gained the cooperation of American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams of domestic and international communications, the officials said.
your a fucking idiot, would you rather be crying next to your families graves after they got fucked by a bomb on a plane or a stray car bomb,
at least there is a just cause to do this, not like the way the terrorists act without thought to who gets hurt
FUCK YOU
Time often heals, sometimes it makes people more angry, usually it clouds the picture.
9/11 resonates so much because it was an attack by persons unknown (still unknown, largely) on a famous target, killing a great number of people at once, televised worldwide, discussed non-stop for 5 years, commemorated every year by politicians who need to feel better about themselves, had laws built upon it that were already planned but could only be passed in a time of fear, and entire nations worth of military spending made on its behalf in order to kill others, for no better reason than the politicians wanted to attack other countries anyway.
I feel sorry for the victims. They deserve some peace. They deserve a legacy of peace – where is the peace after 5 years?
Danny I would rather be un-safe and free, than “free” and living in a police state. What is the point of being free if freedom means that all of your actions are watched recorded and used against you. Living free means accepting some risk. That is what America stands for, freedom, not warrantless mass surveillance by the government. Our country is free because no one is above the law, that means the president as well.
Clearly you are a master in the finer points of making an argument from logic, so you have a good day as well.