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Originally Posted by Kptlt. Hellmut Neuerburg
Have you been thrown in jail for telling a joke about the government, or something in the military is ugly, wrong, or just plain dumb or because your just being an on-the-job slacker? Again probably not.
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No. But contrary to the idea of the comparison, I will say that what they did then was wrong and should have been contested.
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So what-if the US didn't have the NSA, and there was an attack somewhere on US soil that could of been prevented by something like the NSA? Well the answer would probably be thus: The American people outraged by the fact that this attack could of been prevented, blame the government for not preventing it. The government in response says it will do a better job if protecting its citizens and therefore creates an agency that specializes in the tracking of enemies of the United States, and then were back to square one. Or there's the possibility of the government not doing anything. Which do you think would happen?
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That's exactly what did happen after 9/11. It goes both ways, and different people will complain no matter what the government does, and sometimes the same people. I don't think checking everybody's emails would have prevented 9/11, and I think the NSA is wrong on this. Draconian "all or nothing" assaults on the American people are never right; not in 1776 or 1861 or 1917 or 2013.