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Government and your phone records
To many people the idea of being constantly watched and monitored may not seem like anything new. Minorities, in general, have never been so trusting of the powers that be to think that they wont abuse said power in their quest for more. They have had cointelpro and other programs against black leaders and have spied on and conspired against innocent and peaceful movements for years even Martin Luther King. Now, it has been revealed that not only are they wiretapping many Americans at random, they are checking and no doubt cross-checking the phone records of as many people as they can. Why? To stop Al Qaeda? Guess Again. Why would they tap the records of many millions to find the actions of a few? Is it all of a sudden possible that every American is a terror suspect? It would be goood to know what some of our best minds think about this, I for one am angry but not surprised because I think that they are using it to to track the thinking of the people and asociations of people in a BIg Brother sort of way. This is a deep issue especially when they are always talking about some other country having a "state-run" tv and radio etc. Did Sadaam in all his evil listen to and track phone calls of his citizens, does Bin Laden do it? Does the Presdent of Iran or China or Russia do this? How are we better than anyone else? If the war against Iraq made us safer, why do we need more intrusions to make us safer yet?
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