Posted on 01/20/2014 11:22:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
Who do they work for? Who authorized their treason? That is who is responsible... and we all know who he is.
Cue the late Carl Sagan!
“I cannot tolerate anyone who says this program is good. How can anyone trust anything connected to the executive branch?”
Well, isn’t the real issue here trust? If we were at war - and, in fact, we are, declared or not - years ago, no one would have worried about this. But recently, the government has demonstrated time and again that it can’t be trusted.
If this technology has been available in World War II, would anyone have given it a second thought?
You live in a world where a week after the IRS was absolved, without trial, for persecuting over two hundred conservative groups vs eight liberal groups, and the pundits say it was equal, and the New York governor says conservatives have no place in New York
If anyone from our govt was spying on individuals with no cause back in the forties, ok but it was a different culture, and they would not be let off the hook
Indeed. To see a good example of what is going on, our government has really, and I mean really, been dropping it’s standards for who should serve. In the case of Bradley Manning, the man would not have qualified by the standards of the military physically and mentally to serve, they let him go because they needed more boots in the military without trying to authorize the draft.
In the case of Snowden, well, I can’t see why he couldn’t be somewhat restricted in where he did his work, or why he didn’t have to check out with security. Or perhaps there doesn’t exist a security standard for making sure a person isn’t bringing a disc out of the workplace. What’s interesting about him though, is that it shows that Homeland Security and the POTUS aren’t as solid in considering so-called right-wingers and libertarians as security threats as they would claim to be.
What’s more is that your fellow nongovernmental Americans are just as dangerous at hacking into your stuff, if not more so than the government. Guess how people target internet ads to your pc? Yup, the companies actually monitor if you visit their site. Guess who can hack into your web cam on your laptop or the cam on your smart phone, your nongovernmental neighbor can do it with enough computer skill. Much of the modern world is a house of cards at this point, especially when one considers the idea of running up debt under the economic ideology of Keynes.
Dude, the Leftists were just acting like they cared, and another word for an actor is a hypocrite. What’s even more to the word is that an actor in a Greco-Roman play would regularly be several characters in the play.
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