Uh, oh. What if no one cares?
So sorry, man.
PRIVACY RIGHTS IN AMERICA
by T. Antichrist
Webster’s Dictionary defines “privacy” as…
Interesting, if not very coherent, rant.
I wonder… Antichrist… Do you believe the US was behind 9/11? If what you say is true, it would certainly make sense that the US govt. would concoct a plan to blow up a couple of high profile buildings and blame ME terrorists for it.
That would give the NSA the moral authority to monitor everyone’s emails, for example, looking to stop the next attack. Something that no one would go for before 9/11 seems well within the limits of freedom which we are willing to now give up. Because we don’t want to have another 9/11.
So, how far back does this go?
It sounds like a variant of “gang stalking.” Basically, this is a [del]symptom[/del] tactic where everybody in the world but you receives a notification that you’re a bad seed, and they follow you around and harass you forever, using secret hand signals and electronic databases to keep tabs on you 24/7.
ETA: All of the hits I find for “siren harassment” seem like they could be from one person. That’s one way to be tracked, I guess. Make up a term and litter the Internet with it so all your accounts can be linked. :rolleyes:
Even still, I am pleased to meet him.
Who knew The Antichrist was a drive-by?
Hi, sorry to leave it, I’ll answer a few responses.
Most of Smapti’s post is pretty scary stuff, but,
If you do those things without their knowledge and consent then yes, you are cruel.
In case there’s confusion: psychological torture is torture.
Yikes!
And I caused it! But seriously though, he is a fictional character and the church falsified the historical references to him.
Religion and government have been playing mean tricks for centuries, if not millennia, but I can’t claim to know all the details.
Do you know any of the details?
Well, The Pit, anyway. This is the best place on the internet to experience unanesthetized vivisection even if your OP is 99% accurate, relevant, and politically correct. One small slip, like sounding like a paranoid schizophrenic, and the sirens start wailing while some bulldog proceeds to point out you have a ludicrous number of "r"s in your sentences and what’s your deal with “r” anyway? when your post was about "r"s and "f"s causing liver spots.
This is a silly place.
Forget 911… I have so many questions!
What did you think of the 2006 remake of your biopic, The Omen?
Armageddon? A giant asteroid really? Ben Affleck singing!? Come on!
Is it true what they say about Marilyn Manson?
Dear The Antichrist: Please try not to make such disgusting bathroom noises, Sincerely yours, The NSA.
An Open Letter from Darth Panda to the NSA:
Are you guys implying that the OP is a bunch of woo?
I do like that, despite all of the feeling verklempt and collapsing on the fainting couch that has happened in response to this, no one has even attempted to answer this or even define where they think the line between private and public need would be. Except the OP, who thinks that his plans for murder and terrorism are somehow not our or the government’s problem. :rolleyes:
Citee for “mental health systems” and “neuroleptic medications” being psychological torture?
I’ve always been of two minds on this. On one hand, it annoys me that the government thinks it has to do this spying instead of just taking their lumps and reacting to things in a way that respects people’s privacy. If I were “The Government”, my admittedly casual response to things like the Boston Bombing or whatever would be “Sure, we could have stopped it, but it would have been too intrusive, so this is the price we pay. We’ll clean up and move on”. Of course, that gives absolutely no peace to people who were hurt or scared out of their wits, but I have to balance privacy intrusions with security. I wouldn’t really react to OKC or 9/11 with anything but a “Lets try to do better”. I wouldn’t tap anyone’s phones, I’d ignore American domestic communications, and generally allow a free path for American citizen terrorists to talk without being monitored because, as a free society, that’s the price we pay. Sure, I’d probably take more things to judges and ask for warrants, maybe direct my agencies to focus on suspect groups, but if I don’t have the evidence to back it up in court, I’d just let things happen and react.
On the other hand, I fully believe a good deal above 99% of people in this country will never be personally impacted by any sort of intrusive spying, that the embarrassment over something like having an email made public, or an accidental Facebook joining of an LGBT group spread, or an accidental false positive in a criminal case is overblown and people should just learn to deal with it the same way we deal with electric bills but prefer having electricity than not. Most of us lead boring little lives that, even if we know the government’s spying on us, would really change very little about it. There’s a huge difference between not liking something that’s being done to having it impact us. If I knew my phone calls were being collected, emails saved, and porn habits archived, I might change my habits a bit, but then after a while, I’d say “Fuck that” and go back to the way it was because ultimately, it doesn’t impact my day-to-day life. And if it doesn’t impact me and most of you, and the world changes, so yeah, I’d tell you to just get over it. This is the new normal, it doesn’t matter what the Founding Fathers wanted 200 years ago when they couldn’t have conceived of something like the internet. People change, societies change, and it doesn’t matter what any of us thinks but time will march on. So let them tap my phone, just prevent the next bombing, or prevent 2 of the next 3, and we’ll call it even
The point of this rant is that I can’t get behind the OP’s letter, and I certainly can’t get behind the hatred of western governments and the desire to take them down. Life is not lived in a bubble. I fully believe that before you attack anything and try to get rid of it, you need to think of a better alternative. Whatever the western governments are doing with regards to our privacy, it pales in comparison to the non-western governments. So yeah, I will keep on supporting the US even if they decide to copy every bit of my data in my computer, because the alternative is much much worse. I suspect that is true for anyone who thinks ill of the US right now because of the revelations of Snowden and Manning
They know who we are, they know when we’ve been bad (or good), they know where we are and what we’re thinking. Government is Santa Claus. At least for the 1 percent.
I know details of many of the mean tricks.
Apparently. I originally posted it in great debates but it got moved here. I didn’t intend it as a silly or incoherent rant; I thought it was quite a serious and important thing to write.
There are many I could post, but I’d be afraid of what might happen to the people who wrote them.
Well if we must have laws and governments, how about this: have a set of relatively simple laws that the general public can understand. Then police those laws consistently and transparently. There is absolutely no need for a government to snoop or keep secrets. Once a government starts to feel it can do anything, something has gone terribly wrong. A government should only exist at the mercy of its people.
If you really think that, I suggest you ought to go traveling or something, and see how the people of the world really live. There’s a lot more to the world than what you’ll find in the anglophone media. I don’t mean to stick up for the oppressive governments of the east (which the west created), but I’d like to make you people realise that your own governments are really just as oppressive - they just hide it more.
Perhaps I should inform that I’m only a one post per day person really, due to my current circumstances.
That much is clear.
Thanks, I’ll give my wife the heads up that Hell is having terrible internet access!