Do you believe that since you have nothing to hide, it's okay for the government to spy on you without?

Question

a warrant?

If so... please post your name, telephone number, social security number, bank account number, mother's maiden name, credit card numbers with expiration dates and driver's license number and issuing state.

After all... you've got nothing to hide, right?

islam: So your position is that no one in government who has access to all the information I listed above would ever do anything wrong? They're COMPLETELY trustworthy?

Wow. Guess you don't read the news much.

sassy: There are no right reasons to EVER give up your freedom. EVER. We, as Americans, are supposed to be willing to die to protect our liberty, not hand it over to some guy in a suit who says, "I'm from the government. You can trust me."

cvq: Not really. In order for that to be true, you'd have to assume that EVERY government employee was an upstanding citizen. We KNOW that isn't true.

Answer 1

Not this government! They have misused the country's trust too many times already.

Answer 2

i'm afraid Wind... is solid. In ten years, there are in probability of be many greater such situations. individuals at the instant are not approved to understand if the FBI is gathering guidance on them or whether or not they may be puzzled with somebody else. Pres. Bush is retaining each thing labeled, even guidance that has never been labeled earlier. what's the ingredient? I understand we are at "conflict", yet a number of this guidance has not something by any capacity to do with that. His obsession with secrecy isn't commonly used.

Answer 3

Anyone willing to allow the government to have the ability to spy on american citizens without warrants needs to remember:

Anyone who gives up their rights for a feeling of security deserves neither.

Answer 4

Even with nothing to hide, I don't believe the government needs to monitor me. I worked in Millitary Intelligence for 6+ years and, although I never knew of a case where we monitored someone without just cause, I still believe that monitoring of indivduals must be limited to actual suspected miscreants.

Answer 5

People should protect and preserve their rights, including privacy, at all time. Other answers have mentioned Cuba, Germany, etc.,

What about the U.S. camps for Japanese Citizens in World War 2?

You never know what the Government will do with information they have. Or who will be in control of it.

I don't believe anyone could truly withstand living under a microscope.

Answer 6

Absolutely NOT. That particular bit of propaganda is the favorite excuseof would-be dictators in all times and all places.

Did the Jews have anything to hide from the Nazis? Christians from the KGB in the USSR? The Civil Rights movement leaders in the US from Hoover's illegal spying?

Any attempt by the government for spying without warrents and probable cause is for one purpose only: to get information to use against law-abiding citizens with the goal of taking away civil rights and freedom. There are NO exceptions.

Answer 7

Rhetorical question. Nice job. The government has no business snooping around - if they do that, they believe everyone is guilty until proven innocent. That is the ideology of a totalitarian government.

Answer 8

Surveillance of the enemy in time of war is not addressed by the fourth amendment. A declaration of war is a more powerful mandate than a warrant.

As for posting all that information, well, the government already has that. I would not give it to *YOU* or anyone else here, since, after all, you're a lib who desires to take other people's money.

Answer 9

Let 'em spy on me all they want. Let's see.. it would take three full time fed employees (at, say, $50K per year) to monitor my phones, visitors, and mail in 24 hours... not to mention the transcribing and reporting costs. Then take me and multiply by 300 million other Americans being similarly monitored.

And for all that all they'd get is me trading cookie recipes with Aunt Tilly. Doesn't sound cost effective. But, hey... I'm no economist.

Answer 10

Are you really vain enough to think you're interesting enough to listen to over 300 million others? One look at your fledgling attempt at logic would assure them that you are no threat.

They're listening to people that have raised many attention getting flags.

After all, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and last time I checked he's still honored on our money.

Answer 11

One big happy family...right? Walls are for privacy, we should have the choice to decide who comes inside, or so it should be.