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If Europeans have nothing to hide, why should they even give a thought to being on the receiving end of our Spy on Everyone program? Yet they seem genuinely rattled.
One of the things I really like about the Spy on Everyone law is that all encrypted communication can be stored by the White House forever; we know that only evil-doers encrypt communications. And thus we know that all phone calls, almost all email transported over the Internet, and all online financial transactions are evil. So we need to spy on them.
Like resisting arrest, evading spying is proof positive of guilt.
The Europeans should be deeply ashamed of what they've done, whatever it is. But, Make No Mistake, we will find out what it is, and we will bring Europe to justice.
Regards,
Third-Way Manny
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)as they spy on the U.S.
(Yes, I ignored the rest of your post to answer your rhetorical question)
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)And you know this how...?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I read it on the internets!
But to believe that every soveriegn nation-state, with the capacity, is NOT spying on every other nation ... is a display of a special kind of special.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I think I've heard that sort of argument before.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)it's used quite often ... most frequently, to refute pointing out that others are doing what you're criticizing me for.
But that said, so I guess you advocate that the U.S., unilaterally, stop doing what you object to, even as others are doing the same thing?
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I also dislike the phrase 'that said' because it means nothing. You have no reason nor standing to guess what I advocate when I am here to do that for myself. I advocate not using 'they do it too' as a substitute for ethics. Do you think it is a suitable and mature replacement for a moral system? 'They do it, thus it is right for me to do it' is enough for you? You would raise your children to live by such a creed?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)That works on some levels; but not on others ... like ... international affairs, defense, and alot of other things. When the other side gets/has/doesn't something; we should be willing and able to have/do it too.
Here we go ...
And that said ... Governments are amoral institutions; it would be nice if we lived in a world where they were, but it ain't this world.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)In your gut?
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)this is way puzzling.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)If we dig deep enough into any individual's electronic communications, we can always find something that we can smear them with, and help prevent them from being elected. Many democratic minded candidates could easily be prevented from running for office in this way, and more dissenters could be silenced. With the evidence we have gathered of clandestine sexual affairs, trysts, and tricks, we now have dirt on 80% of the politicians in DC - and this has given us unprecedented control of both Houses!
We could call this process "Weinerizing", after our successful first trials on the renegade liberal NY Democrat Rep. Weiner.
Weinerizing will be one more effective way we can cull the herd in order to help keep even more our world safer from democracy.
Europeans should be grateful. No more nasty little social democracies, no more leaders to the left of Maggie Thatcher.
The system works!
(BTW, Third Way Manny, could you call Eric and ask if he could get the agency to wipe those incriminating texts from Lola for me? If Barb ever got hold of them, she'd leave me and take all her money with her. And don't worry, I'll return the favor in a big way, heh-heh )
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)"We could call this process "Weinerizing", after our successful first trials on the renegade liberal NY Democrat Rep. Weiner."
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Eric owes me, big time, for posting this stuff.
TWM
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Those unappreciative bastards!
backwoodsbob
(6,001 posts)They complained so they must be racist
reformist2
(9,841 posts)Not that there's anything wrong with that.
gvstn
(2,805 posts)That the US is still probably No. 1 in computing power. The "save all encrypted information" program points to the idea that if they CIA/NSA becomes interested in anyone that they can and will be able to break the encryption fairly easily despite the common techie's belief that it would take them decades to break current encryption. They don't have time to decrypt every message but can certainly break it for any particular messages they may be interested in.
Don't expect any leaps and bounds on home/individual computing power becoming available any time soon. The govt. needs to exponentially ahead of us little guys for our own protection.