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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
If anything, I think it might have made it freer.
9/11 was a national trauma, and a wake up call for many people. But such disasters always produce divided opinions on how to deal with them, and how to insure they don't recur.
There is an awful lot of rhetoric being tossed around over here on the topic. I know many people with strong opinions. I know of very few reluctant to express them.
I have run into a few folks who fear that saying what they honestly think will bring The Powers That Be down upon them, and are afraid of their mail being snooped on and their conversations in public forums monitored. For the most part, my response is "You wish you were important enough that anyone in power could be bothered to do that!"
I have a web based GMail account, and prefer the web interface and leaving the mail on Google's servers. Sure, google or someone could theoretically read my mail. I don't care. "What" Thou woulds't go through two gigabytes of archived email? Go to, my bucko!" Unless you're me, with my particular set of interests, you're be mystified or terminally bored. I've never considered email a secure medium, and I don't say things in email I'd be all that unhappy about were they to become public. The same goes for what I say in any other public forum.
There are only so many people in <pick whichever three letter acronym Federal agency you prefer> that do that, and all have far more important uses for their time than paying attention to me. I don't matter. I'm not important. They don't care what I think. That suits me just fine.
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Dennis |
Agree completely with what you just said, Dennis. I really seriously doubt that the govenment of the United States gives one stale twinkie about what I think. If they were to ask me outright, I would be more than willing to give them the whole run down on my beliefs. And ... if they feel the need to go through a ton of corporate paperwork and trust instruments, or emails instructing me to cut some drug addicted nimrod out of his parents 15 billion dollar estate in order to find out that I'm not doing anything illegal ... well, whoop te do.
