It's okay that you're misguided, and I will keep my rights, thank you very much.It's okay your selfish, keep your rights.
It's okay that you're misguided, and I will keep my rights, thank you very much.It's okay your selfish, keep your rights.
No, you're the one that is misguided, mis-quoting me, and miss understanding me. This agruement has expired, and is petty.Originally Posted by nik0tine
Although I'm not misquoting you, and I don't think I'm misunderstanding you, I will agree that this is petty. And for that, I apologize.
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so emmm what happened then?
To some extent, it could also take away our freedom of expression. People could be praising or maybe even joking about 9/11 through an IM service. The government could mistake this for teh terrareest tawk and, God forbid, arrest them. Our government's been known for corruption before, is there really anything stopping our government now?
And if they really wanted to use people's information to find kids, they could just use the rights enacted by Megan's law, which makes the addresses of criminals(or is it just child molestors? I forget) public to their respective communities.
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I think it's great.
I like Kung-Fu.
I don't believe that for a second, and that's probably the main reason I object to this proposal.
so pretty much you'll assume the positiion and take it lol.But seriously
wat if people start getting arested for speaking out against bush in the future?yeah,
Yeah. That'll happen. Because the U.S. government arrests anybody that speaks out against it.
no, thye just call us traitors.
evidently you didn't hear about the beautiful antics at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
My high school recently made immigrants take this survey telling where they're from and whatnot(me included) and the only thing they said was that it was for the government. I don't think much of it, but it seems pretty weird.
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It'll be cameras and Room 101 next.
Curse the Devil!
heh...room 101. Dear God don't remind me.
Noname, there is a country called Arginia.
In the late 1950s it was decided that the crime rate was far too high
and drastic actions needed to be taken. Numerous types of weapons
were banned in order to combat the homicides which had been taking
place for years all over the country. Soon the only people with weapons
were the police and the criminals who had their weapons illegally. The
police were overmanned by the criminals in the country and the crime
rate skyrocketed. More drastic measures were needed. In the following
years numerous recording devices, microphones and video cameras,
were installed in places around the big cities where the most crime too
place.
The people trusted their government to protect them and they decided
that their lives and their safety was worth far more than their privacy in
the big cities. Soon the criminals got smarter and crime, though still in
large cities, spread and took over smaller towns all over the country.
More recording devices were installed before the government decided
that the criminals were, far too often, seeking refuge inside of buildings
and communicating with the use of telephones rather than in person.
Recording devices were then installed in many buildings, and soon in
some of the houses where the crime rate was highest and telephones
were tapped by phone companies in compliance with the new laws
passed requiring them to do so. The people believed if they had nothing
to hide, they had no reason to be against this move. It was for their
own good. Besides, the flow of information was so great that nobody
would give a crap if they talked to their sister on the phone about
getting their hair done or other small talk.
The crime problem was still that--a problem--but it was
under control now. The police had more time on their hands to help
the people instead of having to focus only on putting away the bad
guys. However, there was a growing amount of concern now that life
was relatively safe about the people's freedoms. Some people believed
that now that crime had been fixed there was no need for the recording
devices, large number of police, and random searches and raids taking
place. However, many of the people who did not support the measures
which had been taken in the past to combat the crime turned out to
be criminals themselves, involved in drugs and conspiracy. Many were
arrested and the movement for more privacy was stomped out and
dismissed as being only the evil ideas of criminals.
The people were still relatively happy for nearly 20 years until suddenly
there was another movement in Arginia for more privacy. This time far
larger than the previous movement. Tensions escalated and the movment
boardered on revolution. However, the police were organized and, though
troublesome, the revolters were put down since they were unable to
put up a true fight with the tiny amount of weapons that they could
get their hands on. More precautions by the government were taken to
make sure that no such revolution would take place again. The rebels
were painted as evil and unpatriotic.
Arginia now has one of the worst ratings for living conditions, above
only North Korea and Uzbekistan. Any disagreement with the once
democratic--but now monarchic--government is considered treason and
huge prisons hold political prisoners for a number of years. Of course
most prisoners will not survive the first year.
Arginia does not exist, but this example has happened hundreds of times
throughout history. The message: read 1984.
I doubt anyone will read this but it was fun to type.
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