Government citizen surveilance program

[areksnumbr1sxylady]

Why is everyone making such a big fuss over this? At the end of the day, it is there to protect us, right?

How is that bad? We are being cared and looked after... Just like KGB and Stazi did.

Latest news is that UK for first time officially admitted having ability to access UK citizen data without warrant.

http://www.businessinsider.com/gchq...ts-with-foreign-intelligence-agencies-2014-10

How is this even news? Who cares?

Just follow the laws and everything will be fine, nothing good comes out of breaking laws... Like Rosa Parks, US independence war etc....

 

[areksnumbr1sxylady]

Shouldnt the people themselves decide whether the benefits of mass surveillance are worth the privacy infringement?

Apparently we live in democracy after all...

 

[areksnumbr1sxylady]

That is true.

This is because at the end of the day the government is just another group of people who have a common goal. To help achieve this they need to condition their citizens into believing certain things are extremely "bad", yet keep them up and running at the same time.... This is a perfect recipe for control.

A bit like drugs. People assume the governments, with all their Wars Against Drugs actually want drug trade to stop. Right?

Wrong. If that happened the government would simply lose out on a massive chunk of their powers of control. Drug trade stopping would be a huge problem for police because such a large chunk of their police work ie. policing what chemicals people are or aren't allowed to suck into their lungs and stomachs would simply cease to exist.

Now you understand that drugs and the war against them are a necessity to keep police in business. Now try to realise what terrorism and the war against it is trying to keep in business. It's chilling how the world's business actually works.