''Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?''

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40. ****DEAR MR GORE, The blanket surveillance by the gov isn't all secret and never has been****

Please don't believe the hype sir, 95% of this whole issue is about what fear a relative few can stoke up about the government and what abilities computers do an don't have.

I drive on the highway and cameras look at where my car is going all the time, theirs not proof that they are looking into the car for anything

The digital highways are little difference, they're public...it easier to look at where the traffic is going but to presume the government is looking INTO all the traffic, in this case data, when there's no solid proof that it's widespread or continuous is what the masters of sophistry are pushing.

The stoking is the equivalent of the second X-Men movie where the public was afraid of them because the mutants had these powers and they didn't, there were a few of the stoking up fear.... a few of the mutants and humans that wanted war in the first place.

We need to look at the 1976 law again, make sure the breadth of what can be surveyed today is appropriate, I don't think it is... it's like a cat chasing billions of mice tails to no where.

All gov isn't all bad at all times, there's a generation that has grown up with not only seeing the need for gov but have seen where gov can help...and this gov = bad meme doesn't make sense

thx for reading Mr President

Regards