The founding fathers did not like to be monitored and detained by police everywhere they went. So they were driven to kill, to fight and kill for the right to be free. That is a pretty big step. That is a very strong principle to defend, to make a basic right, to make it the foundation of a government.
And yet we find ourselves in that same predicament again.
You drive at night past midnight and you can expect to be detained. You can expect a judge to have your blood drawn out of you against your will right there. How much more of an invasion could there be?
At a stop light there are police officers monitoring you from miles away on camera, while you pick your nose. When you want to fly on an airplane you are searched, your bags searched and they may forcibly take your water. When you are on the phone, your conversation is being recorded, because you were talking to grandma and mentioned a funny photobomb.
What do you think is going on electronically? Do you honestly think you can go to web sites without someone tracking you?
There is more known about you than 30 years of surveillance in and around your home, your job. The problem is, it is not just the good guys that have that data. It is available to everyone. You can be tagged right now so that disparate systems can link your movements together on the internet and track you, cookies are put on your machine so they know where you went, what page you looked at, even what item on that page was of interest to you.
Why are the paranoid people in the world OK with this?
Sure finding a bad guy is important, but how many good people are on this same list, waiting for a slip up, a missed mortgage payment, a traffic ticket, or just a jealous boyfriend to come back and destroy them. The only reason we keep this information is revenge. Not justice.
The people with all the information have all the power. Power tends to corrupt.
Men died to prevent what the government is now doing to every single person in America.
Patriot Act
HR 3167
EC. 204. CLARIFICATION OF INTELLIGENCE EXCEPTIONS FROM LIMITATIONS ON INTERCEPTION AND DISCLOSURE OF WIRE, ORAL, AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS.
Section 2511(2)(f) of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘this chapter or chapter 121’’ and inserting ‘this chapter or chapter 121 or 206 of this title’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘wire and oral’’ and inserting ‘‘wire, oral, and electronic’’.
With this single change it will include every electronic transmission you make. Now that the government can track you, they are entering backdoors to every form of cryptography forcing companies to compromise their own security to allow government access.
The government now has absolute power.
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