Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: DuncanWaring
Should I be monitored today in case someone from a terrorist network accidentally calls me two years from now?

I don't know if you should or shouldn't be monitored since I don't know you. But there are many who should be because they are involved in terror circles.

84 posted on 01/20/2014 10:10:03 AM PST by what's up
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies ]


To: what's up

There’s a “weasel” answer if I ever saw one.

You told me in Post 77 that past calls (two years is the time frame you mentioned) should be evaluated for network-expansion potential.

Under your approach, a wasp nest in the back yard is dealt with by swatting individual wasps.

The only way to deal with a wasp nest in the back yard is to destroy the entire nest.

A free society does not deal with exterior threats by monitoring its own citizens; a free society deals with exterior threats by destroying the root of the exterior threats.

Having your (and my) phone calls monitored will not keep either of us safe.

I do not want my phone calls, emails and other potential activity monitored by the government unless they have probable cause to believe I’m engaged in wrongdoing, and a warrant.

Your cowardice does not change that.


87 posted on 01/20/2014 10:30:08 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 84 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson