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In reply to the discussion: Get One Thing Clear: NSA Domestic Spy Op Is FASCISM [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The abstract information we have been given is too difficult to apply to reality.
Americans are very naive with regard to the dangers of this kind of surveillance.
Which is kind of funny when you think of the teenagers who are very resentful if their own parents snoop on their stuff.
I never did that. Spying on my kids was always repugnant to me. They were on the honor system. It worked. At one point I inadvertently found something in one of my daughter's things, but she knew that I was not looking for something I would disapprove of.
My children have left their diaries and other personal papers in my house for years, and I have no desire to peek. I just do not believe in invading the privacy of others in that way. It is really a horrible violation of the other's personality in my feeling.