I told you this would happen

[SomethingBig]

I doubt anyone will read this but it was fun to type.

It was an interesting (I was going to say fun, but I decided it wouldn't be appropriate ) read.

How far is too far with our current government? They've already taken away a number of rights in the name of "truth and justice."

[The Man]

And just as I (and most other people with common sense) predicted, Big Business is already rushing to take advantage of the new ruling. What a crock of .

[Jebus]

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin

My sentiments exactly.

Many people in the Revolutionary War died so that you could have those rights, and people would just throw them away so that they wouldn't die themselves. It's an insult to the dead.

[nik0tine]

It's not just an insult to the dead, it's an insult to America. It's an insult to freedom, and to the free world.

[black orb]

>>> This is horrible.. they did the same where I live..
whats with the governments going all paranoid about child porn, terrorism and internet?
smurf them

[Teek]

It's not just an insult to the dead, it's an insult to America. It's an insult to freedom, and to the free world.

This is one of the few profoundly moral posts I have read on this forum.

I'll add - and also to human existence.

[Shoden]

tat is smurfing wrong!
i hope it fails they shouldnt monitor everyones every word takes away freedom of speech
and freedom and privacy online

[Garland]

After the government steals your home and builds a Walmart on it, you'll be happy to be in prison because the government was spying on your internet chats and decided to imprison you without cause on suspicion of terrorism. At least you get food, drink and shelter in prison. That is, unless you get sent to one of those prisons where less than humane activities are encouraged for information gathering purposes, out of sight of human rights inspectors. In that case, you're pretty much screwed. God bless the land of the free.

[CloudSquallandZidane]

I say we find out what words their programs specifically search for, and every1 on the internet sends 20 emails to every1 else with those exact words, and we overload their machines with too many hits.

[lordblazer]

After the government steals your home and builds a Walmart on it, you'll be happy to be in prison because the government was spying on your internet chats and decided to imprison you without cause on suspicion of terrorism. At least you get food, drink and shelter in prison. That is, unless you get sent to one of those prisons where less than humane activities are encouraged for information gathering purposes, out of sight of human rights inspectors. In that case, you're pretty much screwed. God bless the land of the free.

well walmart is aobut ot go under since they dont give a F about customer service and refuse to have unions workf or them.

[Garland]

None of these recent actions are particularly bad in and of themselves. Monitoring the internet to crack down on child porn and terrorism wouldn't terribly bother me - I have nothing to hide. Overpowering the Eminent Domain statutes so that any commercial entity can take your property w/o reason sounds very bad but in practice might not amount to much. The authority of law enforcement to arrest people indefinitely w/o due process as material witnesses would be a necessary evil if it were the only new problem. The torture camps where captured terrorists are held also wouldn't raise too many eyebrows alone. It's that all of these things are happenning in such rapid succession that leaves me worried. What sort of nation are we becoming?

[theundeadhero]

The thing with not caring about this because it doesn't personally effect you. Let's just point this out.

Something comes down that doesn't effect you. You don't do anything about it because it doesn't effect you. Basic rights are taken away for your "safety".

Later something else comes down that doesn't effect you. You don't do anything about it because it doesn't effect you. Basic rights are taken away for your "safety".

Now, something comes down that does effect you. You do everything you can but it still happens. Basic rights are taken away for "safety" because even though you did all YOU could, too many other people didn't do anything about it because it didn't effect them.

If everybody ignores most things because it's not directly involved with them than our rights will slowly be taken away one by one because not enough people care about each individual issue. I would like to think that wouldn't happen, but it's already too late. All we can do is wait and see how far it goes.

[lordblazer]

The thing with not caring about this because it doesn't personally effect you. Let's just point this out.

Something comes down that doesn't effect you. You don't do anything about it because it doesn't effect you. Basic rights are taken away for your "safety".

Later something else comes down that doesn't effect you. You don't do anything about it because it doesn't effect you. Basic rights are taken away for your "safety".

Now, something comes down that does effect you. You do everything you can but it still happens. Basic rights are taken away for "safety" because even though you did all YOU could, too many other people didn't do anything about it because it didn't effect them.

If everybody ignores most things because it's not directly involved with them than our rights will slowly be taken away one by one because not enough people care about each individual issue. I would like to think that wouldn't happen, but it's already too late. All we can do is wait and see how far it goes.

Yeah which is basicly why poeple hate america.WE don't do much we can't really the gov. makes sure we ar esplit apart like this and so isolationist that basicly we can jsut let the gov. do whatever it wants heck the white house is basicly gonna have complete control over the other two branches pretty soon as it looks.It may not be tru ebut hey Just an observation.

[nik0tine]

The thing with not caring about this because it doesn't personally effect you. Let's just point this out.

Something comes down that doesn't effect you. You don't do anything about it because it doesn't effect you. Basic rights are taken away for your "safety".

Later something else comes down that doesn't effect you. You don't do anything about it because it doesn't effect you. Basic rights are taken away for your "safety".

Now, something comes down that does effect you. You do everything you can but it still happens. Basic rights are taken away for "safety" because even though you did all YOU could, too many other people didn't do anything about it because it didn't effect them.

If everybody ignores most things because it's not directly involved with them than our rights will slowly be taken away one by one because not enough people care about each individual issue. I would like to think that wouldn't happen, but it's already too late. All we can do is wait and see how far it goes.

Or you could look at it this way: Something comes along that doesn't affect you, so you do nothing. Basic rights are taken away for your "safety"

Then, something comes along that DOES affect you, but you can't do anything about it because your rights got taken away earlier, all in the name of "safety".

[lordblazer]

lol man htis crap is so true well let us smar tpeople on a interenet chat board who speaks out shrink in population we might end up in jail lol.