We Have No Privacy, We Are Always Being Watched.

No. I didn't mean that.

Why have you avoided the question about whether you are an evolutionist?

What has Chomsky got to do with it? Get him on here.

Has he criticised Israel for what he criticises the US for? I assume he works from principles rather than body counts.

I agree that our government has done things which we can't be proud of, to say the least. I was against the war in Iraq and from what I know, Vietnam was an unnecessary war and not conducted in the right way also to say the least. However, this is my country and I think on the whole, we try to do what is right and when we don't, we have ways of protesting and changing things if we really want to.

Noam Chomsky: The phrase 'war on terrorism' should always be used in quotes, cause there can't possibly be a war on terrorism, it's impossible. The reason is it's led by one of the worst terrorist states in the world, in fact it's led by the only state in the world which has been condemned by the highest international authorities for international terrorism, namely the World Court and Security Council, except that the US vetoed the resolution.

I don't think people should be giving away classified information which might put our country at risk and I think Snowden did just that and so is not a hero. I am not talking about revealing the fact of the programs but the information contained in the documents might contain information needed to be kept classified for security reasons. He has been out of the country with these documents and who knows what he reveled and to whom.

rev knows little about US history,

Mac's a Luddite with childish fantasies.

Discovering that a nation is spying on another nation is like discovering a politician lies.

You can just about bet that EVERY country tries to find out everything it can about every other country. Every country spies.

The hardest part about this whole fiasco for the other nations out there is keeping a straight face while protesting indignation.

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Discovering that a nation is spying on another nation is like discovering a politician lies.

You can just about bet that EVERY country tries to find out everything it can about every other country. Every country spies.

Spying between governments is one thing but the massive spying on not just governments but the people of those nations now that technology allow such spying is another matter.

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The hardest part about this whole fiasco for the other nations out there is keeping a straight face while protesting indignation.

Like we did when we was complaining about Chinese spying?

If we do not like the way they are doing it...we elect another government to keep us safe.

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If we do not like the way they are doing it...we elect another government to keep us safe.

First we do have the constitution and the bill of rights, next if the government is able to keep the degree of spying secret how do we know if we should throw them out or not?

Next I and others are planning and are fighting back with the same kind of technology that allowed such massive spying in the first place.

Somehow I do not feel safer with the government having files on the personal lives of all citizens that could be used for blackmail as the Hoover must smaller files was used during his life time.

If we do not like the way they are doing it...we elect another government to keep us safe.

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If we do not like the way they are doing it...we elect another government to keep us safe.

The brainless find it easy to just repeat vacuous propaganda.

We ask the government to keep us safe. They have decided that one way to do that is to monitor communications.

If we do not like the way they are doing it...we elect another government to keep us safe.

“In the past, mail covers were used when you had a reason to suspect someone of a crime,” said Mark D. Rasch, the former director of the Justice Department’s computer crime unit, who worked on several fraud cases using mail covers. “Now it seems to be ‘Let’s record everyone’s mail so in the future we might go back and see who you were communicating with.’ Essentially you’ve added mail covers on millions of Americans.”

Bruce Schneier, a computer security expert and an author, said whether it was a postal worker taking down information or a computer taking images, the program was still an invasion of privacy.

“Basically they are doing the same thing as the other programs, collecting the information on the outside of your mail, the metadata, if you will, of names, addresses, return addresses and postmark locations, which gives the government a pretty good map of your contacts, even if they aren’t reading the contents,” he said.