Re: Intel Official: Expect Less Privacy
Rich wrote:
>> The term "Intelligence" when applied in the context of "Government" is
>> a misnomer anyway 
>
> Good lord .. you sure can tell there is a writers strike ...
> you need 21st century material .. bone up man.
>
> lets see .. an oxy'maroon ....
> liberal intelligence?
> or is that nuance?
> or perhaps the 'narrative'
> or perhaps fake but BOGUS?
>
> or misdirection?
>
> or for the greater good?
>
> heh
Hehe, the problem is actually complacency I think... judging from some
of the newsgroup posters (not these groups particularly) who defend this
erosion of privacy.
The Government claim such things as being to "Protect" you (or somebody)
from some hypothetical enemy. You "Know" that you are not a criminal /
thief / bad guy and you believe that the Government will only go after
the bad guys, so it is easier just to do nothing about it. Fact is
though that although "You" know you are not the bad guy, nobody else
knows that, so you are just as much a suspect as anybody else. Thus to
believe such legislation only affects bad guys (Pirates / terrorists /
criminals etc) is a complete fallacy.
Most of the proponents of the Iraq war (Which is supposedly to protect
us from terrorists) are "Armchair Generals" who were never in any danger
from terrorists anyway (Especially terrorists from Iraq) but it was much
"Easier" to go along with it than to think about it
In reality the Government can't protect you from anything, but it makes
their job of pretending to do so easier if the public simply complies...