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45. Well, not "everywhere", but we agree it has it's place.

I expect to be watched when I'm out in public, or on the Internet. You should put your public face on and behave in public, if you can.

The internet is a very useful cesspool, which makes it an interesting problem too, but I don't have an answer to that one. When I consider the love-hate relationship we have with it, I think of the story about the monkey who won't let go of the rice to get his hand out of the cocoanut before the human comes and catches him. We love the money, we hate the transparency and inability to control the flow of information.

At my home minding my own business is a different matter, there I expect to be left alone (unless I'm keeping a few girls in the cellar or something of that seriousness, not just for jerking myself off in any of the many theoretically illegal ways our society is so eager to provide.)

It's not that I cannot sympathize with LEO in this country, but they need to suck it up and take some responsibility for their situation too, it is their doing too, if they want to fix their image, they need to step up, just like anybody else.