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In reply to the discussion: For those of you claiming this is better because there is a warrant. [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)"They" have been "spying" for years. To some degree, we need that - national security has always called for spying. That's how the CIA exists. If they spy on you, they don't find anything. You're boring. They won't have much interest and move on. They are looking for something else.
It was bad during the communist era and we survived that - it's not nearly as bad now. I would think the main complainants would be Muslims.
When the Boston Bombing occurred, there were people mad that the government had not spied enough on Tamerlan, and the mosque in which he had a meltdown.
Come on, people just want to complain without thinking. Doesn't matter if it is inconsistent. They just like to be victims of some imaginary totalitarian government. We don't have that here and it takes some big exaggeration to make it up