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11. We get it MineralMan. You think anybody the least bit concerned about what the NSA...
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 04:37 PM
Jun 2013

is doing, what they are collecting, and how they are collecting it, is a rube or worse a naive conspiracy loons.

Of course the government is all too happy when people turn a potential source of oppression or tyranny into a joke. Just like the President we can all laugh this off. Make a joke about collecting phone calls and then tell us with a straight face that you care about freedom. That was such a lie when the first President told us, it really is naive to believe it when this President says it.

What's funny to me, but apparently very few others, is that the same people who were praising what Bradley Manning did, and were up in arms to learn that the government may have concealed and down right fabricated evidence in a deadly military operation in Iraq, are the same ones that have no problem with any potential abuse in the NSA Prism program and want to laugh it off like it's no big deal. Of course that was Bush, and this is Obama.

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If they actually did this, there would be 0 louis-t Jun 2013 #1
Well, that would be a good thing, right? MineralMan Jun 2013 #2
Me too! bunnies Jun 2013 #3
Well, it sure beats the 10 cents I get paid MineralMan Jun 2013 #4
Ten Cents?! bunnies Jun 2013 #5
Well, I get paid more, because I write really long posts. MineralMan Jun 2013 #6
Youve got a point there. bunnies Jun 2013 #10
They'd never snoop into anyone's email either. Especially a US presidents now would they? think Jun 2013 #7
Oh, they're watching my email, too. There's no doubt about it. MineralMan Jun 2013 #8
Matt Daemon... tridim Jun 2013 #16
The things you mock say a lot about you. tkmorris Jun 2013 #9
If you look, you'll find several serious OPs on this issue MineralMan Jun 2013 #12
Sorry, not biting tkmorris Jun 2013 #18
Thanks for your permission. MineralMan Jun 2013 #23
We get it MineralMan. You think anybody the least bit concerned about what the NSA... npk Jun 2013 #11
No, you don't get it at all. Truly you don't. MineralMan Jun 2013 #13
My apologies then MineralMan. n/t npk Jun 2013 #22
+1 marions ghost Jun 2013 #19
Oh, it's OK. They only want to know who you talk to, how often, how long. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2013 #14
Really. Who do you know that they have chatted with MineralMan Jun 2013 #15
Which then begs the point of why it's being done at all. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2013 #17
You know, I can explain that, and I will: MineralMan Jun 2013 #20
ooh, why not post some more silly shit? cali Jun 2013 #21
Swithch from Magic Jack then. rug Jun 2013 #24
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