In Defense of the NSA

[SteelCrysis]

whoa

did you just say if you were president, all privacy advocates would die?

So you rant and rave about criminals who commit crimes you are against but in the same note you talk about a total mass murder of people just because they have a different view on things that you?  

WOW

Did you actually ready what I said? I said they deserved the death penalty because of their sheer selfishness at the sheer social expense of others by indirectly fueling some pretty awful crimes.

I put clothes on every day. I'm not terribly modest, but I'd rather not have everything visible to everyone at all times. I'm assuming you must be nudist to say something like that, clearly you want everyone to see everything you do.

Activity isn't the same as clothing, pal.

I'd be 'scared' that some bumbling half wit not even capable of making it through basic trainer would be capable of accessing and exposing them for the grotesquely inept organization that they are, kind of like just what happened. You seem to be operating under the assumption that these people are competent. They have proven they are not. Outsourcing data mining to private contractors? This is like why don't we trust the dunk guy at the bar with the buttons to the nuclear weapons. They have *PROVEN* to be inept. Am I a fool who thinks the CIA operates any differently? Absolutely not, yet we don't hear shit about what they do. You are OK trusting all of your information to a bunch of half wits who leak their activity all over the internet. I am not. This is not a fear issue, it is a reasonable level of intelligence issue.

They are competent, yet we don't actually hear shit about what the NSA does. All we ever hear is "would, shoulda, coulda". Given how much data they have, they wouldn't be outsourcing what they do without being awfully careful about it. They aren't the OPM. Parts of the government can actually be competent, like the NPRC and its list of military records. Incidentally, the CIA couldn't kill Fidel Castro in decades of trying, and didn't see Benghazi coming, so I wouldn't use them as an example of competence.

Yes, I am a rather ardent supporter of the Constitution. Corporations having laws written that are in direct violation of the 10th amendment(the most common violation) are disturbing and should be ceased immediately and then rolled back to a place that supports the bill of rights.

I subscribe to Thomas Jefferson's view of the Consitution: http://www.constitution.org/tj/ltr/1816/...heval.html
"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. It is this preposterous idea which has lately deluged Europe in blood."

You need a babysitter, I don't. I get it.

You think meth damages the human body? Krokodil massively disintegrates your flesh. Go look up photos of people who use it, I don't want to.

It enables child porn lovers.

Actually, net neutrality does that to an even greater extent.

On a technological basis it would be trivial to shut them down. It is currently illegal to do so. It happens widely now, with the NSA going bonkers spying on everyone and everything, it is also entirely outside of the scope of what they can use it for.

Pal, DNS blacklisting is happening right now, without having anything to do with the NSA.

Or the war they waged on the mafia and organized crime in general. They did such a good job, street violence exploded and the day to day threat to normal people is *significantly* higher now than what it was prior.

Wrong criminal orgs, son. You can blame the less ruthless War on Drugs for that.

That is net neutrality. End net neutrality and shut the NSA down on the same day and we will be *FAR* closer to fixing those problems than we are with the NSA as it is, or hell, even with an exponential growth factor thrown in. Tor is easy as fuck to shut down, it isn't legal to do so.

You are honestly suggesting that people who give fair treatment to data are supporting child porn, rather than privacy advocates giving enabling tools to everyone including child porn lovers? Net neutrality doesn't enable anything.