Dear mother of Gawd, I am tired of arguing with rocks

[ConservativeDemocrat]

124. Well, here's why I live in that reality...

#1 While there have been many things that have annoyed me or upset me in my life, I cannot think of a single concrete way in which the NSA has ever done anything to make me even aware of them, much less me be fearful of them. Now State troopers on remote sections of freeways in my rural neck of the woods where the sun is out, the pavement is dry, and there literally isn't another car in sight? Sure. If some DUer wants to post some screed about the terrible fascist police state of radar gun surveillance, I'll be amused enough to play along. But the NSA? Not so much.

And by the way, I doubt your experience is any different. Tell me a single horror story you've had personally dealing with the NSA. None of this "in theory" stuff. An actual concrete problem you've had.(*)

#2 If you read very closely about what was declassified, the way we caught Osama Bin Laden had very much to do with the NSA tracking the cell-phones of some of his top confidants. They were using those cell-phones because they didn't think we knew who they were and what they were doing.

So. That makes some sense. And it does some good.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

(*) This is the exact same question I ask of Republicans when they start going off on "government bureaucracy" damaging their ability to run their business. I ask for a concrete example. Nearly always they can't come up with anything.