2006-09-28 13:59:59 · 9 answers · asked by Wait a Minute 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
They probably started to, saw the level of intelligence they were getting, and promptly shut down the program....
2006-09-28 14:05:17 · answer #1 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's possible. But I am somewhat reluctant to complain about it based entirely on the premise that my privacy may in some way be violated.
**** my privacy if there's a chance that some government agent might find a message that prevents an attack and as a result saves innocent lives.
It shouldn't even be an issue.
Privacy/Public Safety... Tough decision...
As far as I'm concerned anyone UNconcerned about public safety doesn't deserve the same protection the rest of the public receives then.
Anyone thinking that all of this with reading people's e-mail is just government paranoia is an ***. There may be some question as to whether or not we were justified with regards to the war in Iraq and all that nonsense but there is no question that a commercial jetliner flew into a ******* skyscraper and killed thousands of people. Not only that, there were TWO planes and TWO skyscrapers.
What's more, that wasn't where it stopped. One of them even flew into the goddamned Pentagon.
The fact that the people responsible for it all are threatening to do worse the first chance they get should be enough to make one concerned about the possibility they just might do it.
The fact that alot of these people are still committing crimes and killing people across entire continents should give you an indication that they are communicating with each other.
The fact that the internet is a means of communication should at least open you to the possibility that they are doing it over the internet. Not a terribly difficult line of reasoning to follow here....
Take all of this away however and you've STILL got nothing to ***** about.
Imagine for a moment that there are no terrorists, they didn't smash an airplane into the two tallest buildings in the largest city in the country killing a bunch of people and imagine that alot of them were NOT in fact still on the loose, threatening to do it again.
Imagine for a moment that none of this ever happened.
There is public awareness of the fact that the United States government is engaged in reading your e-mail and monitoring your phone-calls. You are left with what?
The obvious, inescapable conclusion that they've probably got a reason for it. Why else, in the name of God would government agents monitor an e-mail of the average person?
Tell me you don't really believe the United States government would **** off TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to find out that Gina's boyfriend Jim will be showing up at the party on Saturday or that your friend Dave got a penile infection and even though it's funny as hell your mother thinks you should send him a get well card?
Do you honestly believe that the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency, would rather an agent spent hundreds of man hours on a computer instead of solving a murder or preventing a national crisis because they have a compelling desire to find out you were trying to purchase a rare, hard to find Beenie Baby on E-Bay or sending a message to a porn site that you would like to order and download the video about middle aged men who want to be teenage girls?
Granted, there may be a small, extremely remote possibility that some little dickweed agent employed as a criminal psychologist has analyzed my answers to a few of these questions and put me on some top-secret dissident list as a subversive or something but until I join a paramilitary group in Utah I'm not altogether certain that it in any way, shape or form affects my life.
I'm content to let them do it. They're not sniffing my underwear, fondling my genitals or ransacking my house so I fail to understand why I should be the slightest bit concerned about it.
Anyone still complaining and spouting this whiny-assed sissy bullshit about their privacy being violated deserves to be the first one to die if some maniac, religious fanatic decides to go on a rampage.
2006-09-28 22:18:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You'd be amazed with who is monitoring the internet.
2006-09-28 21:11:28 · answer #3 · answered by GrnApl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe. They might even be answering questions too!!
2006-09-28 21:11:16 · answer #4 · answered by Werecatwoman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is. Haven't you wondered about that black helicopter hovering over your house?
2006-09-28 21:07:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
does it look like i care, nsa can go suck bush's ***... :D
2006-09-28 21:08:00 · answer #6 · answered by .imz_ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We're not that interesting. Really.
2006-09-28 21:07:05 · answer #7 · answered by FozzieBear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. They have FAR better things to do.
2006-09-28 21:04:00 · answer #8 · answered by mcclean5552 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
probably... the government does do whatever it wants
2006-09-28 21:02:40 · answer #9 · answered by Britney B 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋