Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Posted by gwcalvert 11 years, 10 months ago to Politics
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This is just effing scary... 27% of Americans following NSA story very closely. 35% not following closely at all... Most Americans are okay with the government snooping into their private lives? WHY???

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  • Posted by gwcalvert 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Microchip? The only one that I am aware of is the one I removed from my skull last week. ;-)
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    whoa, whoa there. selfishness has never been a problem. we are not a democracy. we are supposed to be a constitutional representative republic. if spirituality lead to wealth and freedom, the middle east would be the freest, wealthiest in the world. I would ding you, but I want the conversation. I'm thinking about making you do a little time out
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    (Pssst - do you think GW saw the microchip in the tinfoil box, or the microprinting on the teeth of the foil cutter?? )
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Um, Glen Beck did. I thought David was talking about Glen Beck. I have never listened to that Limbaugh fellow.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We are in the apathy stage as suggested in the following quote (which scholars still fight over who wrote.)
    "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: 'From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.'"
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    who dinged you? all of a sudden you're controversial.
    Rush actually said he thought the Boston bombings were an inside job? I'd go with opportunists to try out heavy handed population controls and management, but designed by the WH? doubtful at best
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He’s a charlatan. I use to love to watch the guy, David, but when he made the announcement he secretly knew that the Boston bombings were an inside job and that he was going to expose the WH if they didn’t come clean he went to far with the farce for me to even stomach.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You may be right about the finished document.

    I know that the Founding Fathers gave a huge leeway for the individual states to determine their own voting rules, and attempted to not centralize it in Washington.

    I'm going to do some digging...!
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    S-h-h-h-h-h... You know *- they -* are watching you, listening to you, recording every thought you have... the shock troops are on the way to take you to INTERROGATION! Don't bother opening the door, they prefer to break it down. Makes for better news footage, ya know.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Rush understood years and years ago you have to create your target audience and then hold them to you at all costs; in that end, he took niche message delivery to an artform with his EIB thing, and created his fortune doing it. Most of the rest of them are riding the EIB coattails.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They're all in business to boost ratings... and to promote the government message of the day. The whole political leaning of any of them is to hold a target audience, and sell ad time... but I've mentioned this here before.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Um... I think they've proven that they have enough of their own, um, yeah, to have to save the gas station dumps.

    Everything else, of course, is fair game. As long as the Sheeple never find out about it.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Uh... Does anyone notice that the content of this web site, post-login, is UNENCRYPTED?! ("HTTPS://" and/or "golden padlock" doesn't appear on this web page) That means that the NSA is likely reading the entire of contents of this web site as I author this. Talk about profiling... *chuckles to self* "

    This comment almost sounds like an attempt to intimidate us into paranoid 'silence'.

    What say you? Did you have a good reason to remind us that we are being 'watched'? Who benefits if even one member decides to hold back their opinion?

    Your 'boss'?
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