@RABEL222,
Quote:OK Bill, you are one of the ones who are demanding the government protect us from another 9/11 terriost act.
Sorry but I am not one who wish to give up my freedoms for the false claims that by spying on the bulk of the human race will somehow guarantee safety from terrorist threats.
In fact focusing the kind of resources needed to set up such a massive surveillance state is mostly wasted efforts.
The government had all the information to had stop the 911 attack but did not put it together before hand and fulling up tens of thousands of hard drives in Utah is not going to enable them to put together future plots ahead of time but it will enable those in power to destroy our republic and our freedoms.
Here is President Truman opinion of Hoover a far less risk to our freedoms
in his day then what is now going on in the name of anti-terrorism.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
Hoover transformed the FBI into his private secret police force; Truman stated that "we want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him".[6]
Next there are a lot of risks everyone of us run everyday of the week that is at least a few thousands times more of a threat to us then the terrorism threat.
We have loss a few thousands people to terrorism and we are currently lossing will over thirty thousands every year on our highways.
To sum up first I do not see the massive spying is at all helpful in reducing the risk of terrorism, next I am not willing to throw away my right to live in a free society even if it could reduce that risk something that is not proven.
We are according to some studies had people now fearful of questioning openly NSA and that is not the kind of nation I care to live in.
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http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/26/social-media-and-the-spiral-of-silence/
We set out to study this by conducting a survey of 1,801 adults.2 It focused on one important public issue: Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations of widespread government surveillance of Americans’ phone and email records. We selected this issue because other surveys by the Pew Research Center at the time we were fielding this poll showed that Americans were divided over whether the NSA contractor’s leaks about surveillance were justified and whether the surveillance policy itself was a good or bad idea. For instance, Pew Research found in one survey that 44% say the release of classified information harms the public interest while 49% said it serves the public interest.
The survey reported in this report sought people’s opinions about the Snowden leaks, their willingness to talk about the revelations in various in-person and online settings, and their perceptions of the views of those around them in a variety of online and off-line contexts.
This survey’s findings produced several major insights:
People were less willing to discuss the Snowden-NSA story in social media than they were in person. 86% of Americans were willing to have an in-person conversation about the surveillance program, but just 42% of Facebook and Twitter users were willing to post about it on those platforms.
Social media did not provide an alternative discussion platform for those who were not willing to discuss the Snowden-NSA story. Of the 14% of Americans unwilling to discuss the Snowden-NSA story in person with others, only 0.3% were willing to post about it on social media.
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