In Defense of the NSA

[SteelCrysis]

Yep...... and it is pretty much sociopathic

And if I were President of the USA, privacy advocates would lose both and die.

Killing people because they have hold different views, even fantasizing or imagining death to people because you dont share their outlook......it is quiet disturbing.

Like.....truly off the deep end.

I never said that. And you obviously never read my response to you. Again, since you can't get it, I want privacy advocates to die for indirectly fueling some of the worst crimes possible, and because they don't give a rat's ass about the consequences of what they are doing. The internet made crimes easier to transact over physical distances, but it took privacy to ensure those criminals wouldn't get caught.

Can't we just be happy that the mafia and organized crime aren't much of a problem around here these days, thanks to the efforts of RICO, ATF, FBI, CIA, etc.?  Now, corrupt cops are more of a problem than the mafia, and yet do we still want it to be even more of a corrupt police state around here?  The NSA could easily be a medium of "organized crime" by the government that wishes to do away with certain minorities like a Native American tribe going on a riot to keep their properties on the reservation tax-free as promised for the past several decades.

Clothing is also a verb - an action, LOL.  Is it ok for the NSA to fly a million of night-vision drones around our neighborhoods, peeking thru the windows to see if you were sorting and weighing bags of cocaine to sell when you were actually only preparing xylitol toothpastes or stevia sweetener packages to sell on Ebay?  Like as if we don't have enough satellites and road cameras watching every car on the road.

Maybe the NSA gets bribed by the FDA and pharmaceutical industry - they won't like you selling anti-fluoride toothpastes, so they try to set you up as a cocaine dealer or at least a mule?  They don't like you competing with the bigger companies by selling homemade stevia powder for cheap, advertising health benefits of such over high fructose corn syrup, so they tip you off to the NSA's to-do list (of setting you up for some jail time just to screw you up a bit psychologically - without letting you know what's really going on - hoping that you give up on doing stuff like that when you get out of jail, and just turn to alcoholism and depression), etc.. etc.

The mafia going down was thanks to the government, and their spies–uh, I mean informants. Similar principle, yet it's not OK when the NSA does it. I would not be OK with the NSA stepping outside of electronic surveillance, and stepping outside of national security. The day that happens is the day that the NSA gets shredded and reorganized for stepping outside of its national security role, not least by me. Like I said, the NSA knows well that even the legitimate cause of national security is all that is keeping them afloat, and even then just barely.

Surveillance of people's electronic communications is perfectly alright with me. It's been alright for me. It's been alright for the lives of every single person who hates the NSA.

Finally, read this, and ask yourself if you would give up all electronic privacy to curtail the use of Krokodil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desomorphine#Toxicity

Illicitly produced desomorphine typically contains large amounts of toxic substances as a result of being "cooked" and used without any significant effort to remove the byproducts and leftovers from synthesis. Injecting any such mixture can cause serious damage of the skin, blood vessels, bone and muscles, sometimes requiring limb amputation in long-term users.[7] Causes of this damage are from iodine and phosphorus (and other toxic substances) that are present after synthesis. The large volume of tissue damage/infection is what gained the drug its nickname of the flesh-eating drug, as homemade versions made by suppliers and users contain multiple impurities and toxic substances that lead to such tissue damage/infection (the pure form of the drug itself would not cause this damage).[15] Gangrene, phlebitis, thrombosis (blood clots), pneumonia, meningitis, septicaemia (blood infection), osteomyelitis (bone infection), liver & kidney damage, brain damage and HIV/AIDS are also common amongst users of krokodil.[12] Sometimes, the user will miss the vein when injecting the desomorphine, creating abscess and causing death of the flesh surrounding the entry-point.[7] Test subjects were subjected to desomorphine intake. The completed tests on animal subjects produced results that contrast desomorphine to morphine. Compared to morphine, the results show increased toxicity, more potent relief of pain, higher levels of general depression, decreased respiration, and increased digestive activity.[16]