Posted on 09/28/2009 2:08:30 PM PDT by Coleus
What if it’s the “bad guys” who control and use this technology for their own nefarious purposes?
Then it would be the “good guys” who were running scared, would it not?
CA....
What makes you think they have any interest in finding "real criminals/terrorists"?
It's all about control of you and I.
Just like it's easier for cops to be tax collectors with their radar guns, than it is to solve crime with actual victims. You are a revenue source, criminals are not.
Obama didn’t do this - Bush did. >>>
yea i know, he didn’t act alone; it’s probably part of the patriot act.
>>I personally haven’t done anything wrong
Oh, just by posting here on FR we’ve undoubtedly been caste into the feudal “Naughty Thoughts” bin.
Everyone knows what’s in room 101...
The government agencies already had the names of those in on the 9-11 attacks. They don’t investigate to prevent incidents. It provides the means necessary to prove the case after the fact.
It’s a power grab but ultimately it is misapplied and does not make us safer.
There was data mining in the error of Clinton too.
And in England.
You mean the various branches of the government?
Echelon.
I know.. I know...
But, how else will they ever get caught????
Can’t it just be a practice used for times of war?
And then it can be taken away.
I often wonder why those camera guys who chase all
the movies stars around, why they can’t go chasing
the senators, congressman, etc... Let’s get the low
down on them...
bump
The Gestapo was only 8,000 strong and most of them were office workers and file clerks (faceless bureaucrats), but they were feared to be 'Everywhere'. And though they had files on millions of people (Sigfried didn't say Heil Hitler), once the file was made and cataloged, they were never read again. But the fear of that 3:00am knock on the door by the guys in the Black Leather Coats was there.
This what Obama's doing.
So you’re OK with government having this sort of power and capability, just so long as they leave YOU alone. Do I have that right? As long as the enemies they go after are YOUR enemies as well?
I can’t begin to think why you would EVER want to be on this forum. You need Statists-r-Us, two doors down on the LEFT. Hard left. We here are about RESTORING THE CONSTITUTION AND THE REPUBLIC, not about spying on folks in clear VIOLATION of the Constitution we want RESTORED.
Yeah BABY!
I want to know what the Quakers are up to?
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