Is the U.S. still 'the land of the free' today?
Because I have the feeling it isn't....not anymore anyways, or is it? (I'm Belgian so tell me)
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Sladycae: "before i could talk on the phone and emails without someone intercepting them and decided if i was a terrorist." But could you? Programs that did just that have been instituted since the 50's, both during wartime and peace. We just didn't talk about it all day long.
" i could speak my mind without being put on a watch list." But could you? There have been watch lists at least since the McCarthy area and communism. And anti-Semitic watch lists, and white supremacists watch lists...
I hear what you're saying, and I agree America is a great country, but the fact is, our government has been hard at work for decades upon decades ensuring domestic tranquility via any means they thought appropriate. We just didn't all care so much or didn't know. We no longer worry that that might have overheard a casserole recipe; we rant about our civil liberties. We demand all information instantaneously, but the truth is we are neither privy to all information nor should it be available at a moment's notice to anyone in the world who wants it. Governments need to function; issues need to be handled. Surreptitious is not the same thing as classified. We have as many freedoms as ever and so long as it's not dictated what we have to say on a phone call, the only people who should worry are those having conversations they shouldn't.
" i could speak my mind without being put on a watch list." But could you? There have been watch lists at least since the McCarthy area and communism. And anti-Semitic watch lists, and white supremacists watch lists...
I hear what you're saying, and I agree America is a great country, but the fact is, our government has been hard at work for decades upon decades ensuring domestic tranquility via any means they thought appropriate. We just didn't all care so much or didn't know. We no longer worry that that might have overheard a casserole recipe; we rant about our civil liberties. We demand all information instantaneously, but the truth is we are neither privy to all information nor should it be available at a moment's notice to anyone in the world who wants it. Governments need to function; issues need to be handled. Surreptitious is not the same thing as classified. We have as many freedoms as ever and so long as it's not dictated what we have to say on a phone call, the only people who should worry are those having conversations they shouldn't.