NSA appreciation thread

[SwampG8r]

they keep us safe and stuff and its legal and if its not its secret anyways so don't worry about it

[dipsydoodle]

1. lol

[Autumn]

2. It's also kind of nice that they are sort of backing up all of our data

and communications for us.

[SwampG8r]

3. if they would share data with the user

I could dump carbonite and save 5 bucks a month!

[pinboy3niner]

4. NSA is happy to share their files with us, no problem there at all

[SwampG8r]

6. is that my steve miller "rock love " album?

its in my cloud so I know they have it

[pinboy3niner]

8. Could be

They say they will neither confirm nor deny on the Steve Miller question.

[Autumn]

7. I broke my android phone so I emailed them and asked if they would please

send me copies of a couple of pics on that phone that I hated to lose. Hopefully I will get those any day now.

[SwampG8r]

9. maybe

we will start hearing about how the agency will someday evolve into just that
a magic federal cloud backing up all our data
kind of the way mandated health insurance from for profit corporations will someday magically evolve into single payer

[eppur_se_muova]

5. They already know what we think of them. nt

[pscot]

10. This appreciation thread is lagging well behind the doggies

appreciation thread and the Jeff in Milwaukee appreciation thread. And people seem to appreciate radical feminists way more than they appreciate the NSA I hope the NSA doesn't get the wrong idea about how much they're appreciated.

[SwampG8r]

13. is it?how can you be sure?

maybe they don't like to toot their horn and the are working the numbers for our own safety
everyone loves them but they are too humble to let us make a big deal of their awesomeness

[whereisjustice]

11. they'll never misue their billions and billions of dollars to

spy on political opposition
spy on environmentalists
spy on businesses
spy on families
spy on peace groups
spy on civil rights groups
spy on human rights groups
or manipulate financial markets

We all know they would never do that, and we know this because they've said so, although the oversight is highly classified as you can imagine. Of course, it is difficult to say for sure what they are doing but if they say everything is good than that should be good enough for everyone. Remember, the constitution is more like a non-binding idea, a political statement, not something cast in stone and each person in power gets to pick and choose what they like and don't like about it. It's that flexibility that has made us such a great nation over the last 40 years. Consider it a Chinese menu form of government, you can pick #2 and skip #4.

Anyway, if these groups aren't doing anything the government in power doesn't agree with or can't exploit, then they should have nothing to worry about.

[SwampG8r]

12. well yeah....

anybody can point to a bunch of bad stuff but what about all the good they do?
huh?
what about that?

[whereisjustice]

14. like the fact that Germany has not flown any planes into US buildings since 9/11