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In reply to the discussion: Don't entertain this garbage. [View all]Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)and you can't fight it because you didn't even know the information was being gathered, or that the people you were calling, or receiving calls from might (or might not) have been engaged in terrorism. Or were repeatedly "butt dialed" by - just had three of those calls the other day. Or might have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
No one in Gitmo like that. Or the innocent people held for years on death row - or the really "lucky ones who were executed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and perhaps take a plea bargain because they were innocent - and of course being innocent they had nothing to hide - and no jury would ever convict them. Except it did. And those weren't even the result of systematically gathered evidence.
So no, not smart. It is a false security if it is gained at the cost of our freedoms.