[arthurus]

Every politician is in a position to be blackmailed. Surely you have seen what MSM can do with a piece of information that has zero significance. NSA has everything anyone ever said on any electronic device, every video that was ever put on a computer or smartphone, all the inferrable and deducible information that the locations and sequences of cell phone use can provide, etc. Politicians are the least likely people psychologically to be able to simply say,”Do it and be damned.” two or three probably have done that but most will not, psychologically can not.

[HLPhat]

>>NSA has everything anyone ever said on any electronic device

And yet, nobody I know who went to the 9/12 National Tea Party in 2009 has had any of that alleged “everything” used against them.

That’s a BIG difference with what typically goes on in places like China and Soviet Russia.

Why do you suppose that is?

[pabianice]

You know, this is an interesting assertion. Every second of everything anyone once said or photographed is an awful lot of data. According to physicists, one of the things that precludes a Star Trek-type transporter from ever being built is the storage capacity for the data. According to one, to encode a person's molecules would take a stack of 1 terabyte disks as tall as half way to the moon (about 238,000 miles). The NSA has no such ability.

I do believe that in another 100 years, we will have memory capacity equal to the transporter challenge, but that's another topic.

[concernedcitizen76]

What are the chances of a mass national outcry demanding that senators and house reps sign oaths, after a given vote, that that they had voted of their free will and were not subjected to unlawful blackmail, coercion, extortion or bribery in the determination of their vote.

I thought so. lol