Glenn Greenwald: "Detaining My Partner: A Failed Attempt at Intimidation"

[JDPriestly]

125. Perhaps I just have more experience and more knowledge of history and can read the early

signs of serious problems before a lot of other people.

Please don't be so personal in your criticisms. You have no idea who I am or what I have seen and lived through. Don't assume you are right.

The surveillance programs now in place are extremely intrusive.

Our telephones don't just communicate when we use them to talk. They also communicate most of the time -- where we are, for example.

I pay the telephone company to provide me a service and to sell me a telephone. I do not pay the telephone company to keep my phone records. The records are mine. I pay for the entire package. My telephone, my share of the telephone companies costs and the cost of my phone bill. The government does not pay my phone company to provide my service and therefore has no right to my phone bills. They are strictly a matter of a contract between me and my phone company.