Spying: The American Way of Life?
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WASHINGTON -- Last month's revelation that President Bush wants hundreds of millions of dollars to invent innovative ways to spy on Americans was greeted not with suspicion, but shoulder-shrugging indifference.
Save for a few battle-weary civil libertarians, not many people have been fretting about how cameras now monitor all downtown areas in Washington, or the unchecked spread of face-recognition cameras that spy on travelers in airports and sports fans in arenas.
Politicians have capitalized on this sentiment, turning license into law. Last week, the Virginia legislature rejected a bill that would have slapped limits on facecam systems in the state. The USA Patriot Act, which granted the FBI and other agencies unprecedented monitoring powers, was approved by the U.S. Senate by an overwhelming 98-1 vote and by a 357-66 vote in the House.
*shiver* God, that's creepy . . . . I always feel like people are watching-- not in a paranoid way, but I never feel like I'm alone . . . . Now I understand why . . . . *looks around suspiciously, searching in vain for a camera to flip off*
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Yeah they`ll be indifferent, they have the power they want so they dont have to live up to their promises or ideals since the US public is themsleves mostly indifferent.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so.
"It was daylight when you woke up in your ditch
you looked up at your sky...
yes that means blue is your color
you had you're knife there with you too
when you stood up there was goo all over your clothes
your hands where sticky
you whiped them on your grass
so now your color was green
oh lord, why did everything have to keep changing like this?
you where already getting nervous again
your head hurt and it rang
your head was almost empty
it always hurt you when you woke up like this
you crawled up out of your ditch and onto your gravel road
waiting for the rest of your mind to come back to you
You could see the car parked down the road and you walked toward it
If god is our father you thought then satan must be our cousin
why didn't anyone else think of these important things?
When you got to your car you tried all the doors they where locked
It was a red car and it was new
There was an expensive leather camera case laying on the seat
out accross your feild you could see two tiny people walking by your woods
you began to walk towards them
now red was your color
and of course those little people out there
where yours too."
Spying is in fact the way we stay ahead.. without spying we would have no intel, without intel we would have no military position with which to place ourselves, thus leaving our bums unprotected while an ugly country comes along and bum rapes us like one of them horny college professors that go after the bimbo's that try to learn shit.
So as you can see, some spying is in fact USEFUL... some of it is quite.... well... against what our constitution stands for.. which in fact is no shock. Truthfully, the constitution was created just to join the people of this shitty country together... to give them something to aspire for, though in fact in the end it is nothing more then a bunch of ink written on paper which in turn will lead toward nothing more then the country ignoring it. Truthfully, being spied on won't disturb me, seeing as I'm too ugly for most people to spy on me constantly, though there is in fact the invasion of privacy which they are now legalizing (though not openly saying they're going to invade our privacy) which in fact should not exist.
Safety vs Privacy... which is the more important? Privacy for me... like I give a damn about my "safety"... I was safe enough last year... I'm safe now... I'm not worried to high hell if someone hijacks a plane.. mainly because I never get on any.. I don't go anywhere... I AM INHERENTLY PARANOID AND UNTRUSTING.
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Last night as I was doing my homework for my American Government class, I came across something that upset me when I remembered that article that Damian posted.
'The constitutional guarantees of due process create a right of privacy. As the Supreme Court defined it in Stanley v. Georgia, in 1969, the right of privacy is:
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The right to be free, except in very limited circumstances, from unwanted governmental intrusions into one's privacy.
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