NSA Phone Call Database (NSA DO NOT CALL LIST)

[asdf_admin]

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I honestly do not care. If they want to listen to my stupid voice blabber about non-sense ... I say let them. Same with the searching ... I have nothing to hide so I could give a rats fuck if they search me. I know these are rights ... but frankly because I do not do drugs, sell, or make, nor am I a terrorist. The worst thing they are doing is wasting my hard earned tax money on bullshit. Now, that does piss me off.

Goverment is full of bullshit and paper pushers. God Bless the Red, White and Blue.

[thesightless]

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thats what im saying. as far as i can tell, 99% of the country hasnt had thier life changed. they arent opressing me, you, rich, poto, toasty or anyone. they are looking at groups of numbers connecting to a different set of numbers based in the middle east and northern africa. if they see a disturbing pattern of callers, they act.

[djrichwoods]

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So what this comes down to is that you trust your government and I don't.

[asdf_admin]

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i don't trust them. and i doubt we can stop them.

[thesightless]

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ditto. i also dont trust the bees in the nest to my window, but my lazy ass doesnt want to deal with spraying the nest and pissing it off because a bee might sting a person walking past my building. eh, its just a difference in opinion. it doesnt piss me off enough, but clearly it ticks you off a ton. agree to disagree./

[neoee]

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Its funny how everyone reminds us that our troops are defending our country, how we should support them etc. but easily forget that many people DIED defending those rights your willing to hand back.

I wonder how the ultra conservatives will feel if Hillary was ever to end up in charge with these powers.

"If I'm not doing anything wrong why should I worry about it", thats such a flawed agrument. How about because it goes against the foundations of this country? How about because it throws the presumption of innocence out the window and assumes EVERYONE is guilty?

Let's take it a step further, why not put a video camera in your home? After all your not doing anything wrong, right?

[asdf_admin]

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"If I'm not doing anything wrong why should I worry about it", thats such a flawed agrument. How about because it goes against the foundations of this country? How about because it throws the presumption of innocence out the window and assumes EVERYONE is guilty?

gulity people have something to hide, non-guilty people have nothing to hide. Don't you watch Law & Order?

like I said. Sure laws are laws, and if you look at that way they are not breaking any laws. so what is the issue? Besides the whole big brother thing ... which has gone forever ... what is the problem?

National Security is at the apex of all laws. It over rides everything ... after 911 things are different, and they should be. Why should we allow something like that to occur again? So what if a few people get pissed off and the ACLU is bitching. Fuck them. If this action can save thousands of lifes ... I am not concerned if I am on some stupid list.

[thesightless]

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the ACLU is slowly working on becoming the single most annoying organization outside of the greenpeace hippies.

[asdf_admin]

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ACLU is bullshit ... but they are part of the check and balance system. I do not support them, but I will not state they are not needed.

[thesightless]

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same here. they do some good things, but goddamn in the most annoying, bitchy manner possibile, and that doesnt help in most ppl's eyes.


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after all, they are group who filed suit to stop the lists of repeat sex offenders from being made public. they are the same people who filed suit to prevent the government from doubling fines for drug violations in school zones. they funded the defense for that female lawyer who was passing information from the convicted cleric to militant groups in egypt and saudi arabia...

[neoee]

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gulity people have something to hide, non-guilty people have nothing to hide.

Its not that simple. I was reminded of this when one of our Associate Technical Fellows did a presentation at a network planning forum. When we are in the process of aquiring another company he makes sure not to put things on his Outlook calendar so someone can't use the information for trading stock. Don't you think they have something to hide? Are they guilty of a crime?

Privacy != Criminal

[asdf_admin]

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Yes, I do understand your comment. But if that calendar marking prevented human deaths or led into a prevention ... it would be no different. I understand the privacy issue, and yes I do not like it. On the other hand, if they asked me I would let them use any information they needed. You can not do that now in our time and age.

[Kobe]

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The most galling thing about the ends-justifies-the-means arguement is that if we think back, there was pleanty of intel pointing to the what was going on and who was doing it. Where we failed was not seeing it due to information overload. The solution? Let's increase the infomation exponentially so we can do a better job next time.

Here's a fact: in a recent survey, employees in the Dept of Homeland Security have the lowest moral of any govn't agency. The survey also shows they believe their work is making a difference the least of any other agency.

One way to stop the government is to change the government. That means stop voting Republican across the board and get some balance back in our leadership.

Sean:

"just praying hillary. kerry, and gore dont win. then shit will go downhill quicker than bush could ever pull off. " ??

Never in my worst nightmares could I have imagined a bigger disaster of an administration that what we have now. Not even close. It kills me to see what has been done to my county. Almost as bad is that they have so many fooled into supporting it.

ANYBODY but Bush, in this case meaning whatever Rovian drone they have lined up to take his place.

[thesightless]

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im with you, i dont like bush's seciurity, but he did a good job on the economy that bill fucked up, but never will i put a vote in for hillary, kerry, or gore. im not even thrilled about mccain. we need new blood. new parrties. the democrats and republicans are both wrong. neither party really does anything good. the democrats will piss on everyone to cater to one. and the republicans will piss on one to ""help"" everyone. and it isnt about voting republican or democrat, if anything, the founding fathers were so conservative they make todays parties look liberal. just find a person who isnt tied into the current ""in crowd"" and is honest. mccain can smile all he wants, and try to be honest, but he is the same thing as every other politician.

[Kobe]

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In an ideal world, yes of course, our political system has become bullshit. In the real world that we live in, Bush & Co (meaning the puppeteer who's hand is up Bush's ass, who will still be there after Bush's term has come and gone) must be stopped.

That means Democrat. We have to work within the constrains of the system so a vote for an independent is a wasted vote. If not these maniacs are going to get us all killed while eroding the last remaining bits of our freedom.