Catonic wrote:

ibenez wrote:

Spy on me - I ain't got nothin' to hide - I might be pissed off that you are wasting *MY* tax dollars spying on me, but hell, I don't care.

How about, don't spy on me because I have a right to privacy? Better yet -- why post under a pseudonym if you have nothing to hide? Why not just post your entire credit history on Memestreams right here and now so we can make a note of it for the future.

Actually you don't have a right to privacy. There's nothing in the constitution or the bill or rights that grants anything in the way of privacy. So privacy is not a good reason to rub this out.

Ibenez says he doesn't care whether the g'ment spies on him cuz he's got nothing to hide. He's a law abiding citizen, and I'll take his word at that, despite the fact that he probably speeds from time to time and looks the other way when the grocery store forgets to ring up those bananas. But one thing that he probably is concerned about that this would eventually enable is denying of other things based upon his behavior.

Maybe he can't get access to Medicare or Medicaid because the g'ment knows he smoked once. Maybe he can't get an FHA mortgage because he read Mein Kampf once. Maybe he can't get that deduction on his taxes because his kid didn't support the war. All of these things are not far out of reach with this kind of power. Today, they are very out of reach because g'ment surveillance is not too powerful. That's why we should keep it that way.

You don't need to spy on your own citizenry to prevent a terrorist attack. You DO need to build an educated and happy society to prevent a terrorist attack.

RE: Pentagon Expands Domestic Surveillance