government watching us?

Question

how closely do you think that our government watches the every day American. Is there people watching us right now and watching what i write on this computer?

Answer 1

While we can't be certain the government is watching what you are typing, we can be very certain of other things. As soon as you are born you are issued with a social security number which essentially brands you as an object. Along with the Social security number, law requires all types of identification to be used at all times to help them record what you do in life. Even if they are not watching you directly, they are forming a feel and strategy to control you. Every time you turn on the television you are subjected to advertisements that will make you go out and buy buy buy. This keeps you a consumer, and a slave to the money. The governments main goal is control and it is highly apparent in the fact that they want to pass a law that would require micro-ID chips to be placed in all new born babies.

Do yourself a favor and watch the movie Zeitgeist on youtube. You can also search for it elsewhere on the internet. It is a real eye opener.

Answer 2

Yes, I forget what it's called but in the EU they have a machine that reads through emails. FBI once had a program called carnivore that allowed spying. What about Cell phones and SMS messages(text messages) again the SMS standard is open. So it's quite possible for the government spy on you there too. What about talking on the phone? Last time I checked there just wasn't a working algorithm for voice recognitions so that means that the ability to analyze words in speech isn't quite accurate. But that doesn't mean they don't try and pick up what they can. China for one censors it's people from sites promoting freedom and such. Muslim nations such as Iran and Saudi Arabia also don't allow people to view sites that can undermines their beliefs or governments. They have devices that look for "strange activity" and they remove the bad apples.... I used to program routers, the devices that allow the Internet function. All it takes is a well crafted access-list and a government is blocking traffic. Emails/IM's are not even encrypted so that means anyone can read them with a packet sniffer. But that doesn't matter cause the government probably already knows how to crack most encryption and can read them anyways. America and UK are the only places that you can really use the Internet without restrictions. So be thankful if you live there because they don't block all your usage..

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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government watching us?
how closely do you think that our government watches the every day American. Is there people watching us right now and watching what i write on this computer?

Answer 5

this could be very true. every time i come up with an idea for a new product that same week i see it on tv and its just annoying. i also believe that the government is involved in all of the public shootings. i mean it kind of makes since because the shooters family gets on the news and are all like "oh..they were just the sweetest kid on the block and always made every one laugh and has never been to jail" and then bank look at what they did. I mean i believe that the government pays the shooters family to do this to lower the world population a little bit. it ugly i know but thats what i believe what our own government is doing to us

Answer 6

Yes, they are.

I recently watched a FRONTLINE on PBS about the National Security Act now permits the Feds to monitor phone calls. All phone calls are screened and monitored for key phrases and key words. That if a certain array of words and pharses are used in a given amount of time during a phone conversation, the NSA computers will flag your conversation and the conversaiton will be kept on file.

FROM THE FRONTLINE WEB PAGE:

FRONTLINE addresses an issue of major consequence for all Americans: Is the Bush administration's domestic war on terrorism jeopardizing our civil liberties? Reporter Hedrick Smith presents new material on how the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program works and examines clashing viewpoints on whether the president has violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and infringed on constitutional protections. In another dramatic story, the program shows how the FBI vacuumed up records on 250,000 ordinary Americans who chose Las Vegas as the destination for their Christmas-New Year's holiday, and the subsequent revelation that the FBI has misused National Security Letters to gather information. Probing such projects as Total Information Awareness, and its little known successors, Smith discloses that even former government intelligence officials now worry that the combination of new security threats, advances in communications technologies, and radical interpretations of presidential authority may be threatening the privacy of Americans.

Producer(s): Hedrick Smith
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/2512.html

Answer 7

If you're that worried about it....here's what you do.

Play with the different search engines online, Yahoo's, Google's, Ask.com, Lycos, all the others you know about. Search for *your given name*, or the version of it you use online, *in quotes* so the search engine looks for the whole phrase.

--See how many results turn up,
--See how many of those *you recognize* as yours,
--Note how old *your* results are,
--Check and make sure whether or not you're being widely quoted, or if your picture is being widely used.

This should give you some idea as to how big and how old your online footprint is. It should also clue you in to any *other* people out there who have a name similar to yours.

For example, with me, according to Google and Yahoo Search, there are *three* other Brad Poes on the internet besides me, one lives in Arizona, the other two live in Illinois as I do. In addition to this, there are "B. Poe" individuals scattered all over the *world*, including people in France. And this doesn't even *count* any organizations out there with the initials "B.P.O.E." which is another can of worms too.

^_^ Point is, it took me half an hour to find anything I recognized as *mine* online, and the stuff I could find was *over five years old*. On the internet links usually *die out* in that time.

Trust me when I say this....no computer on earth is going to be *fast enough* to keep up with *everything* that some 300+ Million People are doing in email, text messaging, or by cell phone. We can't *all* be watched at the same time on everything...so....

--Do what you can, to get the *good stuff* out there about you, as well as anything unusual.
--Make sure your credit history is what you think it is. Check on it once in a while.
--If you're that worried, buy things with cash more often than not, or use money orders.
--And....well....you *know* there are some topics that are going to be *Red Flags* with certain people, right? Okay then. Be sure that if you talk about a "Red Flag" topic that you are *absolutely clear* in stating that you're *not* an enemy, that you don't merit closer watching.

Really, that last one can't be overstated. The best way to not be mistaken for one of the bad guys is to not *do things* that bad guys *clearly and obviously do*. For example....being critical of the current President is fair game....saying you're a physical threat to his life and limb is *NOT*. ^_^

But yeah. I really *doubt* we're being watched on the level you might think. Simply put, we're under the radar. Lots of us don't have the *money to spend* or the *travel plans* or the *demonstrated expertise* to show up on "their radar", you know? So....chill.

RELAX. *lol* ^_^ It's all good for the time being, and will be *better* in 2008, once we get some new leadership (and get rid of much of the Patriot Act, we can only hope).

Just saying. ^_^

Answer 8

Of course they are .They want to know everything.Things have changed in the last 10 years.Money used to mean power.Now it`s data,the more they no about you the easier it is to control you.Every political party has a file on you .They love sites like this.They get to see how well there propaganda is working.they like to keep the people confused so they don`t know what`s really going on.A month ago i answered a question about what kind of weapons i have fired and a weak later i get a letter in the mail from a group that wanted support to fight gun control.How did they know?

Answer 9

yes every thing you do on-line is being watched by the new world order. but not by people necessarily but by AI and digital agents. programs designed to track certain kinds of on-line threats to the government itself. thus every single on-liner is being spied on by uncle sam

Answer 10

Not unless you are on the super-secret enemy list.

Seriously, EVERYONE, including the government can read what you are saying. If you don't want to stand behind your words, don't say anything.