I have nothing to hide, so I don't care who looks at my emails or listens to my phone calls. If anyone were to read my emails or listen to my phone calls they would be bored to tears. I'm all for homeland security no matter what it takes.
My problem is that, even though I am a foreigner, many of MY email communications (even those within Australia) get routed through the US... What if some extremist came to power in the US? (don't laugh. Dick Cheney made it to becoming Vice President) If Nazi Germany had the power to monitor the emails of foreigners, you BET they would have used it.
Maybe you're in a more repressed part of the country than I am... Or maybe you have a totally different perspective on what 1984 was about. But I don't really feel that the government controls me at all. Anti-government propoganda is practically a sacrament in America. People don't "just disappear" for disagreeing with the government. You can hop in your car in Florida and drive to Washington state without any transit papers, and without submitting any travel plans. In fact, I don't think that I can even begin to describe all the freedoms that we have -- freedoms that many other countries don't allow. The countries that ARE like us... actually patterned themselves on us. Our government is probably uniquely aggressive about preventing discrimination in most of its forms.-... or maybe it's just that I grew up in a country (Saudi Arabia) that was a lot like Orwell's distopia, and I know that the USA is nothing like that.
Maybe it's just the way that I grew up, but I never really considered "privacy" to be a human right. The 4th Amendment (Unreasonable Searches and Seizures) is the only constitutional basis for our "right to privacy" although the intent of that writing is quite a bit different than our contemporary perspectives. Our only legal protections in the United States are spelled out in the Privacy Act of 1974 and Law Enforcement is specifically immune.
I have nothing to hide, so I don't care who looks at my emails or listens to my phone calls. If anyone were to read my emails or listen to my phone calls they would be bored to tears. I'm all for homeland security no matter what it takes.
"Those that rank security over liberty, deserve neither.".....Ben Franklin
dick cheney is not an extremist....besides i'd rather go hunting with dick cheney than to ride over a bridge in a car with teddy kennedy anyday...
My problem is that, even though I am a foreigner, many of MY email communications (even those within Australia) get routed through the US... What if some extremist came to power in the US? (don't laugh. Dick Cheney made it to becoming Vice President) If Nazi Germany had the power to monitor the emails of foreigners, you BET they would have used it.
With the technologies that everyone use, there is no true privacy.
Maybe you're in a more repressed part of the country than I am... Or maybe you have a totally different perspective on what 1984 was about. But I don't really feel that the government controls me at all. Anti-government propoganda is practically a sacrament in America. People don't "just disappear" for disagreeing with the government. You can hop in your car in Florida and drive to Washington state without any transit papers, and without submitting any travel plans. In fact, I don't think that I can even begin to describe all the freedoms that we have -- freedoms that many other countries don't allow. The countries that ARE like us... actually patterned themselves on us. Our government is probably uniquely aggressive about preventing discrimination in most of its forms.-... or maybe it's just that I grew up in a country (Saudi Arabia) that was a lot like Orwell's distopia, and I know that the USA is nothing like that.
This is approaching the scenario depicted in Orwell's 1984 - no thanks...
Maybe it's just the way that I grew up, but I never really considered "privacy" to be a human right. The 4th Amendment (Unreasonable Searches and Seizures) is the only constitutional basis for our "right to privacy" although the intent of that writing is quite a bit different than our contemporary perspectives. Our only legal protections in the United States are spelled out in the Privacy Act of 1974 and Law Enforcement is specifically immune.
damn good poll
It's for the greater good. Good poll!