Im tired of the everyone concentrating on Snowden and not the surveillance state [View all]

[davidn3600]

The government is spying on us. They are violating our constitutional rights. The government has no respect for privacy. And dont give me shit about the FISA court being a check and balance. 30,000+ requests for a warrant and they only reject 11? That's a rubber stamp court giving out secret rulings/warrants obtained through unconstitutional means.

And the authoritarians who support these tactics only response is, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about." Ummm...yeah you do. And any person that says this line I put in the realm as Hitler and Stalin. You are a fascist who supports a police state.

You see, you dont get to decide if you've done anything wrong. The government makes that determination. The government is who defines what "wrong" means. That's the reason you never, ever talk to the police without an attorney. There are so many laws written so broadly that it's impossible for you to live a life and not violate a law.

Now imagine you got Big Brother constantly looking over your shoulder, constantly collecting data on what you are doing, who you are talking to and what about. Imagine how easy such a vast surveillance system can be abused to one day cross-reference what you are doing to how you vote, what you learned in school, what websites you go to, and some computer algorithm calculates all this data and determines how much of a threat you are or how likely you are to commit a crime. Already political campaigns are gathering data on behavior to identify potential voters. So a lot of this technological infrastructure already exists.

Imagine in the future, some program can track your movements and determines you tend to visit certain high crime areas of your city more than the average person....meaning you should be put under further suspicion. That is exactly what PRISM and this NSA program is doing online. You may be talking to some guy online about cooking, but unknowingly to you...he's actually a terrorist who visits radical Islamic websites. But the fact you talked to him means the system should now pay more attention to you because you might be a terrorist. Even though all you were doing is talking about how to bake a casserole.

This is the future of crime-fighting right here, folks. The government is already creating databases with your DNA even if you have never committed a crime. Remember, they have to make sure the prisons of the future are always at least 90% full in order for the corporations that own/run them to make a profit.

When our founders created this government, it was created to be a servant of the people. Can anyone honestly say this is true today? Think about it...who is it serving? If we are going to have a surveillance state that spies on people, why not a surveillance state that also spies on corporations and corrupt bank executives? Let's root out anti-trust violations by listening in on what board members say to each other and lets all be able to read CEO emails. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, right? If private citizens can't have any privacy, then corporations shouldn't either.