- Joined
- Jan 25, 2012
- Messages
- 10,033
- Reaction score
- 3,905
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Undisclosed
I don't "just accept" them.We defacto knew it. But that's a long way off from confirmation. Now that it's confirmed that they're doing it, it's a new ballgame. So the NSA is trying desperately to try to present their actions as legal and doing doing their best to make it seem as if it wasn't aimed against the people.
Now that this is confirmed, the next logical question is "well what other stuff are they doing that we have no idea about?"
You of course are free to disagree, but you shouldn't expect everyone else to just accept the BS lines the government is feeding us.
I believe the difference in our outlook lies in our backgrounds. Having most likely not be around when all this started, you apparently have no clue how long this kind of thing has been happening. To become outraged and indignant at this point is meaningless. Though I applaud your sense of social awareness, we've been well past this kind of minor dispute at the fringe of privacy for a long, long time.
Personally, I would like nothing better than to go clear back to the pre-FISA days and start over but that's impossible. We're well into the rut, now. This situation is the latest but far from the worst. The military mentality, given no outward enemy, will invariably turn inward. Where's the Red Menace, now?