I Am American

...could also be said they wanted us to give up our rights so: 9/11 @MrBrownstone

@MrBrownstone Yup, pretty much!

@Coppercoil Remember J Edgar Hoover ? He basically had carte blanche to spy on [b]anyone[/b] whose politics he feared, for [b]decades[/b]. The head of the FBI kept the most intimate records on citizens who’d committed no crimes other than supporting liberal or progressive causes.
Then of course, there was McCarthyism and the whole communism paranoia. I wish all the skeletons in Hoover’s “closet” had come out during his lifetime.

@bijouxbroussard I do remember. I believe it's a torch the administrations pass on.. i think it never goes away.. just each new admin get it and never tries to fix it or stop it.. so the powers just grow and advance with the technology. Its scary.

@Anonymartyr I have the right to privacy, regardless. My not doing anything illegal doesn't make it okay for someone to peer into my windows, track my spending, read my emails or listen in on my conversations.

You're not going to tell me you think they're doing things like that for my protection, are you?

@Anonymartyr You have nothing to hide? Good! Then we’ll know what you have. And when we want it, we’ll come take it from you. Get it yet? When there are men who are above the law then the law no longer works,

The apartment isn't mine and cannot be moved anyway.
Would you really risk your life to steal a cat? I would gladly kill any human for this Cat. In my 50+ years of life she is the only other life worth protecting. That is all I have- perhaps if I was able to have more I might see things more your way. But from where I am standing (crippled) I have no rights (to protect) to begin with.
Perhaps you need to be thoroughly robbed to alleviate that paranoid anxiety?