What do you think of the Deputy Director of National Intelligence saying we have to give up privacy?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071112/ap_on_go_ot/terrorist_surveillance

How long before a Deputy Director of National Information will tell us we have to give up free speech and tell us what books to read?

John K, the deputy director of the national intelligence has just told you to your face that you have lost freedoms. The only question is: what are you going to do about it?

Answer 1

I think you need to realize that our enemies are actively trying to infiltrate our homeland to do us (including you liberal hippies) harm. The government is welcome to listen to my phone calls to make sure I'm not working for our enemies. Civil liberties are an important thing but they should never be the priority over saving lives!

Answer 2

It appears that the Dep. Dir. of Nat'l. Intell. has violated any oath he may have taken to defend the Constitution. We, as Americans, have the right to privacy; and such a petty tyrant as said Deputy is much more interested in becoming an enemy to American freedom than in actually protecting and expanding said freedom.

He should be arrested and brought to justice at once.

Answer 3

His invocation of MySpace and Facebook as justification is really what scares me. Just because there are those who will voluntarily surrender (or disregard or even disrespect) their own expectation of privacy is NOT a justification for Congress or the Executive *taking away* that expectation.

To those who've posted here saying that privacy is already lost, that, too, is not a justification for what Kerr is proposing.

Answer 4

He is either completely evil or retarded. He actually equated our voluntary giving of personal data to companies that we are doing business with, and the government spying on us and trying to use anything that it catches while fishing to detain and imprison someone. He should be put on a plane and flown to Iran, since he wants to live in a country with that level of government intrusion.

Answer 5

I think it is time to grip our guns even tighter when the government starts making statments like that.

once they are allowed to take privacy away, it is only a matter of time before they do knock down youe door.

welcome to Bushistan!

Answer 6

You haven't a clue....it is already happening...they are already tapping in to your email and reading everything you write and send out to other people, who you are chatting with, etc. also, don't think that they are not linking into these polls and surveys questionnaires, because they are! Once they have detected something that is not "of the norm," the FBI is coming to get you! And, they won't give you any warning either! Unless you have a steel door, they're knocking it down!

Answer 7

We gave up most of our rights back in the 80s when we bought into the "war on drugs".

Many of these things we now are learning, have been in place since then.

Trading security for freedom makes us all losers.

We can't be secure and freedoms once given up are not easily won back.

Answer 8

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Answer 9

The definition of privacy is in the Constitution--he does not have the authority to change it.

Further, he seems to have forgotten that in America, the people are in charge--he is a public servant, not our master.

he is one servant who needs to be put in his place--or, in his case, in the unemployment line.

Answer 10

Welcome police state, that's what I think. A dictatorship always starts to protect the good people from a very dangerous threat.

What's happening here isn't that hard to understand