“It makes me uncomfortable knowing when someone types, speaks or writes something purposefully or not might it be used against them when it was completely innocent.”
Agree. Lets see... The original Tea Party participants broke the law I believe. Those who ran the Underground Railroad broke the law. Pre 1964, Blacks who sat at white lunch counters, drank from white water fountains, used white restrooms, rode in front of buses, etc, etc, broke the law. List goes on and on. Point being that we Americans have a long and cherished tradition of breaking bad laws. Long live the tradition.....
In some ways this all just comes down to if we have “moral people” in government. When everybody gets “that feeling”, that government isn’t trustworthy, and then finds out about something Orwellian, the trust is destroyed. That’s where we are now. These people treat us like servants, in their minds *they* get to decide what rights we have, all while keeping things secret. Then we’re told to “trust us”.
well...no. This government is a void of darkness, completely opaque. Regarding the NSA specifically...one fact is telling, their outrage of us finding out. They *knew* we wouldn’t like it, then deliberately kept it a secret. Now they want to call it treason, set an example. Nobody had better threaten their control. There was no reason that this program couldn’t have been disclosed more, gone through some public debate.
With the existing targeting of groups and people because of personal beliefs it is not acceptable to be told to just trust you. How about an agreement, the more information the government wants from us the more information we should have access to from them. Deal? They’d never agree, which also exposes them. So many liars and thieves, so plainly obvious, yet no accountability, nobody knows anything. What could possibly go wrong?