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In reply to the discussion: Senator Feinstein sells out Americans AGAIN [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)shooting of her colleague on the Council in San Francisco and she reacts with panic at the thought of terrorism. She doesn't keep her balance on certain issues. Terrorism is a serious problem, but losing our rights on this kind of massive scale is far more serious.
They may claim that this program is not all that invasive, but it is setting the stage for very invasive access to all of our communications.
And they are killing off the Post Office and replacing its services with private company deliveries. The problem with that is that the government can only read our mail if it gets a real subpoena, but private companies can do what they want with what we entrust to them. It isn't that I would have any reason or even opportunity to send something that they would be interested in. But I who knows what might be against the law in the future? And who knows what could be placed in an envelope to you that you do not know about?
Privatization is really bad for human rights. Private companies are not restrained by the Bill of Rights. That's one of the reasons this program is being contracted out to the private sector.