I don’t think this author gets it.
They speak of all the laws that nobody understands. -That leaves them up to GOVERNMENTAL interpretation.
Trust me, ALL of us are ‘guilty’ of some infraction or another -that they can find in all these nonsense laws.
So when you sqwawk about our government and they don’t like it, they have every bit of info on YOU. They’ll find SOMETHING on you. Just ask the filmmaker who got blamed for Benghazi.
This spying amounts to: WHEN they need to silence you, they will have EVERYTHING in your life from which to pick something by which to do so.
Soon, we will not even be able to gripe about it like we do here on the FR. Wait and see.
The problem is they are not looking for terrorists, but rather tea party.
To a point, I respect Stossel for his free market views and for having broken himself of leftist thought, which can’t have been easy in his circles.
But when you’re mentioning worse stuff the government does, you might want to mention protecting the killing of babies and other “inconvenient” people.
Because all the rest is just material.
Love ya John, but you’re wrong here.
Like drugs the interaction between thousands of laws can be devastating. If the government wants to make your life miserable and bankrupt you in the process as demonstrated by the IRS scandal, the government has unlimited resources to persecute(as distinguished from prosecute) you. The government has far too many powers as it is and we should be cutting back those powers rather than expanding them.
Non sequitur. Completely ignores the fact that this is the USA and our FedGov was given no power to run a surveillance based police State.
Lame. Our tyrant is not as bad as their tyrant. (I feel better already)
It was a private security camera that captured the images of the Boston Massacre. Private companies can do what they want.
Same old BS. Our government isn't putting us in gulags like some many others (yet), ipso facto we are much better off and should complain about other, more important things than having all aspects of our lives spied upon. Which will eventually lead to the gulags. Example: a 19 year old teen jailed without trial, apparently indefinitely, for tasteless online remarks.
I like John Stossel I just think he’s wrong on this one.
Stossel sounding as self righteous as ever.