Today every terrorist with access to a pocket Constitution
The above sentiment leans towards labeling any who dare possess a pocket constitution as potential terrorists, which is absurd.
Do people in the IC assume that terrorists want to harm us because our freedoms?
Does the wholesale interception of electronic communications based upon the premise of someone might be a terrorist make us any safer?
The Ft. Hood shootings, the Boston bombings, and other evil acts, were not prevented by any of the un-American spying by the alphabet gangs, furthermore, when viewed with an objective eye, acts of terror have actually decreased in the last few decades. Some may argue the point that this reduction is a direct result of the omnipresent intrusions by the Five Eyes crew, and if so I'd like to hear some reasonable explanations as to why some rather major attacks have occurred in spite of the spying.
> Do people in the IC assume that terrorists want to harm us because our freedoms?
The irony of this is that the most strident critics of such authoritarianism are precisely the kind of people who mindlessly characterize these things as "our freedoms".
And no. The IC is not under such a misconception. The IC regards terrorists as enemies precisely because they know the terrorists are less interested in our magical "freedoms" and more in the reality of how the military and industry will happily, say, invade Iraq to get what they want.
The privacy debate is just a way to keep us from discussing the larger problems.
Do people in the IC assume that terrorists want to harm us because our freedoms?
Does the wholesale interception of electronic communications based upon the premise of someone might be a terrorist make us any safer?
The Ft. Hood shootings, the Boston bombings, and other evil acts, were not prevented by any of the un-American spying by the alphabet gangs, furthermore, when viewed with an objective eye, acts of terror have actually decreased in the last few decades. Some may argue the point that this reduction is a direct result of the omnipresent intrusions by the Five Eyes crew, and if so I'd like to hear some reasonable explanations as to why some rather major attacks have occurred in spite of the spying.
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/wrjp255a.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/terror...
Seriously, is the article supposed to be a joke? How can any part of a covenant between a government and its people be considered to be Top Secret?