Gov't collecting millions of phone records under top secret order

[MD_Vet]

BIG BROTHER.... (Oh Brother)

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/...ds-165528.html

[muggsy]

What are you concerned about the government knowing? How many time did you call the phone sex line?

[MD_Vet]

UMMM...Maybe I'm a tad concerned about the right of PRIVACY. . didn't the govt use to need to get a COURT ORDER to WIRE TAP a citizen.

Guess you don't give a rats ass about how this f*cking govt has become exactly what out forefathers and thousands have fought and died to prevent.

[yqtszhj]

On the Privacy thing, just FYI, Clinton started it and Bush expanded it, and I also have your same concerns. It's way too easy to find out our information.

[ltxi]

BIG BROTHER.... (Oh Brother)

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/...ds-165528.html

Dude....we been doing this for decades. Get over it.

[mr surveyor]

personally, I don't care who started it ... who revised it .... who expanded it... or who's cranked it up another notch.....


IT'S STILL WRONG!!!!

I can't believe the responses to this kind of crap from self professed "conservatives" that ask "what do you have to hide" .... or that's the way it's been for "decades"..... WTF! Is this any way for supposedly FREE people to live?????????????

[OldLincoln]

I didn't know the new NSA Data Center was operational. It is a well known issue that the information is out there from educational, state, real estate, federal, etc. Whenever we hear that one agency know about something that had another agency known could have prevented something bad from happening we all get upset saying why can't they share information. This data center is designed to hold all that data so all agencies can have it. Well, at least those the NSA wants to share with. If you want to know more just watch the movie "Enemy of the State". As for us, the horses left the barn about the time Elvis left the building a long time ago, and that was a very long time after God left Chicago.

[jocko]

well lets eee

What are you concerned about the government knowing? How many time did you call the phone sex line?

4 times last week, 8 times this week,but its only thursday. Been raining alot, so been couped up at home more.

semper vulgare

[Barth]

I'm not sure I've made a call on a personal phone in over a month???

Now recording internet traffic, Email and credit card records?
Of which I'm sure is happening also.
IMHO is much more revealing.

[JohnR]

Gov't collecting millions of phone records under top secret order

Hmm, Jocko called a sex line six times, a gun store five times, and used his debit card at Starbucks every day until last week. He's probably suffering caffeine withdrawal now, which is officially a mental disorder, so let's go judge shopping to adjudicate him mentally ill, a sexual predator, and a terrorist, so we can take his guns.

[yqtszhj]

The troubling thing now is that the benefits of our high tech world we live in today has made it that much easier for them to filter through the data and find out anything they want on anyone.

[Barth]

Christmas in June!

Hmm, Jocko called a sex line six times, a gun store five times, and used his debit card at Starbucks every day until last week. He's probably suffering caffeine withdrawal now, which is officially a mental disorder, so let's go judge shopping to adjudicate him mentally ill, a sexual predator, and a terrorist, so we can take his guns.

I've got dibs on all the ported guns!

[JohnR]

The troubling thing now is that the benefits of our high tech world we live in today has made it that much easier for them to filter through the data and find out anything they want on anyone.

And the next step after that is, it's not what you did wrong that'll get you in trouble, it's what they will embarrass you about, ridicule you about, and make it sound worse than a crime.

The protected class will continue to get away with high crimes, misdemeanors, corruption, racketeering, and so on, but the rest of us will be subject to the Rule of Man, the whim of tyranny.

[muggsy]

These are my true thoughts, all kidding aside. I would rather have the government know how often I pick my nose than to endure another incident like that which we experienced on 9/11. I don't have a fokking thing to hide. If you don't vote rat bastard socialist into power then the power won't be abused. If the power is abused we still have the checks and balances provided to us by our forefathers. I refuse to live my life in a constant state of paranoia.

[johnh]

It is true, the party does not seem to matter, whoever is in charge keeps moving us along the slippery slope of the government intruding further into our private lives. So many folks (even here) say that it is just to make us safer, or a response to events (not singling you out Muggsy). The core issue for me is that events may require acute responses at the time. This is why we have due process and search warrants, or in the extreme cases emergency exceptions. Yet our government seems to consider recent events to justify a never-ending exception to due process. On that basis, democracies end and dictatorships begin. It does not matter if it takes a week, a month, or a decade. That is what is at the bottom of the slope.