Here’s why one fellow in my town is against the NSA’s
massive surveillance efforts: it's an act against God.
“Listen, God is the only one with the right to know what
you’re thinking and saying. God, not the government. That giant NSA
surveillance facility they’re building in Utah is a huge Temple of Satan.
America is God’s nation, but as we give up our guns and surrender to the gays
and the government we are giving ourselves over to Satan.”
I’m not sure about the guns and gays thing, but amen to the
rest. You don’t have to be paranoid to worry that the PRISM program is bad for
democracy. Sure, Google and Facebook collect more data on me than the NSA, but
they want to use that to make money. I can live with that. Go ahead, Google,
sell my info to Jockey and let them try and sell me more underwear. I can take
it.
But the government doesn’t want my data for money, they want
it for power. At some point I will have enough underwear. At no point does the
government have enough power.
I agree with Sir Acton: “Power tends to corrupt, and
absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
Again, that last part may be too much, but the temptation to use the info it
has will corrupt the NSA and any president who has access to it. Good men and women
will go bad if they can convince themselves that going bad is really going
good. And they always convince themselves of this.
If Google wants to send an ad to my phone, fine. But the
government is going to send a drone to my doorstep—not so fine.
I don’t believe in Satan, but I do believe in the satanic.
No, not that ship that sank with Leonardo DiCaprio on it. I’m talking about the
capacity of good people to make bad decisions in the name of good ends. This
may have nothing to do with Satan, but it will plunge us all into hell.
2 comments:
The federal government had been very good at “collecting information” for decades via CIA, NSA, IRS, FBI, State Dept., etc. We are only getting to hear about pieces of it. But as we all know, the federal government is completely incompetent and doesn’t know what to do with this information. It took over ten years of top priority effort to find Bin Laden, the same for the Uni-bomber, and they still haven’t found the real JFK assassin. That is why they contract out complex things like private security guards for the nuclear weapons program. It is known in law enforcement that most criminals are caught because they are stupid. So, as long as you don’t admit in Facebook that you don’t always come to a full stop at stop signs, you probably won’t get caught. Oh.. and don’t write things that draw attention to you like … ““Hi. You have reached Rami Abu Aaron’s cell phone. I’m at a tea party with my Islamic friend Imam Jihadi scheduled for 9:11. We’re sharing a plate of hamas and pita, and planning to start a C-4 non-profit. Sorry I missed you, but remember whatever happens today, you’re da-bomb.”
i'm scared to comment after that... lol.
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