If You Can Read Through The Entire McClatchy Piece, And Still Defend THIS Practice...

[JDPriestly]

22. OK, guys. We are there -- where East Germany was.

The next step will be that this kind of reporting will spread in our society because anyone, anywhere having a bad day could be an enemy of the people -- or worse, of corporate America.

Just forget freedom and the Constitution. They have been replaced by paranoia.

Instead of requiring corporations to protect their data, instead of limiting the secrets of government, we have resorted to the "easy" but very repressive solution of wiretapping and collecting metadata.

With that, we are no longer a free country.

And think of all the surveillance at airports on top of this surveillance in public workplaces (which will spread to private workplaces in no time). Very, very sad. What is the point?

MADem justifies the surveillance by our government with the argument that, after all, the Chinese are doing it and did it long before we did. So, let's stop trading with China. Is it really that hard? Let's cut the cables that connect our communications with those of the Chinese. Either they respect our love of privacy and freedom and just go it on their own, or we withdraw our commerce and exchanges with them. We do not have to do business with China or any other country for that matter. Our freedom and our sense of national unity and trust is more important than our trade with China. And the fools who invested in China should get out before the Chinese nationalize all their industrial assets. It could happen whether we stop trading with them or not.

Can anyone think of a better way to deal with this and still preserve our freedom? I haven't thus far. Maybe there is something, but so far I haven't figured it out.