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05/14/06 |
Hello again don’thaveanythingtohiders:
If I trusted the government to use the data they are collecting as they say they are, then I would have NO problem with the collection. However, I don’t trust the government. Plus, I don’t trust anyone who does.
Come take a journey with me into the future. That’s something politicians can’t/don’t do, but you can.
Let’s say you’re a member of PETA. I’m not exactly sure what PETA is (and I don’t want to know), that’s why I’m using it as an example. Right now, membership in PETA is perfectly legal. Let’s say that, in the future, membership in PETA becomes highly unpopular. Or let’s say that some leaders of PETA commit a violent act in the name of PETA. As a response, the government would like to talk to, and maybe even charge, all the members of PETA for being terrorists. But they don’t know how they could possibly find them.
Then somebody says, well, we HAVE this database..............
Let’s say, they come out with a super laxative, and some up tight politician ('pun intended', who has an “old” laxative factory in his district), decides that crapping on demand is un-American. He manages to pass a law making possession of the superlaxative illegal, and wants to round up illicit eliminators. YOU happen to have tried it, ONCE, and you are IN a database.
Then somebody from SEA (you figure out what that means), say’s well, we HAVE this database......
excon
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Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 05/14/06 3:19 pm:
Hello again:
Or, let's say that you suffer from allergies, and you are a regular user of Sudafed. TODAY (not the future), in order to buy Sudafed, YOU will be put into a database. No problem, you say, because you don't have anything to hide. You don't make methamphetamine from Sudafed like some people do, so you're not the least bit concerned that you're in a database with meth manufacturers.
Of course you're not concerned...........
(But you are, aren't you? And, if you're not, you should be!)
excon
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 05/15/06 10:22 am:
you would need one hell of a case of hay fever to use enough pseudophedrine necessary to covert it to meth .
Clarification/Follow-up by quixotic_Choux on 05/16/06 7:22 pm:
tom: YOu sure are a McCarthite. Guilt by association is what illegally using computers to link phone calls of innocent citizens to SUPPOSEDLY people engaged in terrorism.
We know terrorists don't do business via traceble telephones any more.
Fascist dictatorship, I will resist those who support and propagandize for this evil.
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