As long as you are just encouraging them to keep their spirits up, and not plotting, everything will be okay ;)
2007-11-07 10:57:47 · 13 answers · asked by Yahoo Answer Angel 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
cincywahine, imagine the sense of security you'd have if they repealed the law...and you are talking on your phone, knowing it was not monitored...when all of a sudden, a 747 landed on your home, flown by a terrorist that plotted via phone call?
2007-11-07 11:09:53 · update #1
tehabwa...the government can monitor my phone calls day and night if it's necessary for the nations security. I don't call terrorists, suspected terrorists either...so I don't imagine they are monitoring me. If they are, they are very bored.
2007-11-07 11:53:48 · update #2
Has anyone thought about how absolutely impossible this is to do:
"They don't monitor calls to terrorists, they monitor ALL calls."
300,000,000...most with cell phones and landlines...many talking at the same time. It's statistically impossible, unless you have a staff of 300,000,000 working around the clock. Happy to do the math for you ;)
2007-11-07 11:56:03 · update #3
Bush could be tending to one of his 60 critical tasks throughout any given moment...or he could be monitoring my call to an overseas girlfriend...which one would it be?
Paranoia will destroy ya.
2007-11-07 11:57:40 · update #4
Bush Derangement Syndrome
2007-11-07 22:48:21 · answer #1 · answered by realitycheck 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you had a fast enough massively parallel computer system at each major optic hub/switching center of most national telephone traffic, you wouldn't have to listen to every phone call. pseudo-AI, or a well written program could pick out any keywords, and flag/tag/forward any conversation. It could build a database of potential suspects, and learn what's normal conversation, and what's not. I don't really mind that at all I guess, but of course it could make mistakes. I'm not a liberal, but it still is worrisome.
Now the other aspect that no one talks about is, everyone's phone is tapped in this scenario. Including government employees, and CEO's of large companies, and LEO's (officers). What if you could use this system to:
A: Blackmail any government employee you want, be it a congressman, or senator, or defense department worker/manager. You could then use that information to influence key people, and do a lot of harm. No one would know how it all works, and no one would be wiser, or whistleblow.
B: Listen to deals and talks between companies. Inside information is very lucrative, if you deal with stocks, and other investments. What if you could flag and review all these conversations, and profit from it?
C: Stay one step ahead of police investigations, as they discuss certain aspects of cases, or what not.
Not saying that A and B are true, but they are definitely possible. There has already been a report of C. And if you think that actual people do the monitoring, guess again... it would be technically impossible any other way. Terrorists could always talk in code, normal people don't, so who are we really catching?
2007-11-07 12:54:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So you believe everything that's said to you, but only if it's said by people who constantly lie.
How's that working out for you?
Given that Bush has defined as a 'terrorist' anyone who disagrees with him about anything, and given that that's almost the entire population, yes, I'm bent out of shape that Homeland Security is violating the Constitution.
If you had any love of country and any grasp of the Constitution that defines the government, you'd be bent out of shape, too.
They don't monitor calls to terrorists, they monitor ALL calls.
BTW, given that you think the majority of citizens are plotting with terrorists, how do you explain the fact that they haven't completely taken over?
Oh, right, reason, rationality, truth, fact, evidence -- none of those mean anything to you, because you think only what the liars say.
If you actually had a mind, you probably would have used it.
2007-11-07 11:21:20 · answer #3 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because Homeland security decides who is a terrorist. With 750,000 American citizens on the "NO FLY" terror list, all trying to figure out how they got there, my confidence in the government to make this decision is pretty low!
2007-11-07 11:07:56 · answer #4 · answered by Wounded Duck 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The FBI has been investigating left wing communities for years. interior the 50s Congress had hearings by potential of the Commitee on un-American activities. somebody interior the DHS writes a memo suggesting that there is human beings on the main appropriate like Timthy McVeigh and human beings get all in a huff.
2016-09-28 13:23:55 · answer #5 · answered by gaub 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all overseas calls are made to terrorist. Rush Is lying to you.
How would you feel if Bush listened in on your intimate conversation with your lover who happened to be on vacation in the Middle East?
2007-11-07 11:52:34 · answer #6 · answered by Tigger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a straw man. Where was all of this outrage when Bill Clinton allowed the use of "Echelon"? That data mining was being directed domestically, was it not?
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2007-11-07 23:26:21 · answer #7 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why are neocons so brainwashed into thinking that a government spying on it's people is ok??
2007-11-07 11:06:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they support and fund terrorism and have no wish to be waterboarded in Romania and then be locked up in Gitmo where they have to eat brown rice and actually live what they have been preaching.
2007-11-07 11:03:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not that at all. It's the essential suspension of habeaus corpus, which is basically the main idea of the Constitution.
2007-11-07 11:02:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋