Hey, about Krokodil, I think we should seriously educate everybody about the flesh-eating properties of this stupid drug first and foremost, before anything else.
Even if we have national security measures as strict and extensive as that of Singapore, there would still be drugs and crime like underage porn especially here in America. Personally, I think the big reason why there's still so much drugs going on around here is because of the corrupt cops doing much of the enabling and secret dealings with the cartels themselves. These cops are having too much security and privacy all to themselves - out of a million cops, how many of them are drug users themselves? Many of them were too uneducated to graduate from a college with a degree, having already used drugs at some point in their lives, and others are just around drugs nearly everyday when being involved in making arrests or trying to keep peace at troubled homes - some of them get bribed just like Justin Bieber gets seduced by a line-up of women outside his trailer at a concert. I personally know some cops who smoked weed everyday when it was illegal in every state. Good luck with NSA on cracking down on the cops in this police state - monitoring their emails or internet activity won't be enough!
I'm all for putting an end to life-threatening drugs and child porn, but the authority itself is still human, and basically just as likely to be as corrupt as the peasants that they are supervising - in that sense, evil cannot ever truly be stopped. It's like a dog chasing its own tail.
For NSA to be truly effective, NSA would need to expand its workforce by an order of magnitude. I believe that NSA has no problem with monitoring Tor (of course, NSA wouldn't let us know) - it's how they're so effective with preventing terrorist attacks since 9/11. Obama still being alive today is proof of this. Yet, to be able to accurately monitor 300 million Americans would require a workforce of at least a million qualified and trusted inspectors with a fool-proof structure, unlike the police workforce system - it would require an extensive top-to-bottom supervision system within itself, as intensive as the Pentagon.
Problem is, the US Government does not care enough about internal domestic issues to really make that much of a difference in the short run. So much focus is on international affairs - while the middle/lower class just succumb to poverty, alcoholism, depression, poor health, and therefore extreme temptation for drug use due to hopelessness and boredom associated with unemployment. All the while, the government is letting a massive influx of illegal Mexican immigrants maintain a network of drug traffic, infesting many parts of the country as long as companies hiring them have them pay their own share of income tax... see the irony in all of this?
Truly, I'd like for NSA to spend as much effort on stopping child porn altogether as with preventing terrorism. But many of these guys are smart. Some of them are hackers who really know what to do to avoid detection while churning out legal adult porn - so it's always a tough cat-and-mouse game (usually tougher than catching those extremist fanatical terrorists running around on US soil).
Even if we have national security measures as strict and extensive as that of Singapore, there would still be drugs and crime like underage porn especially here in America. Personally, I think the big reason why there's still so much drugs going on around here is because of the corrupt cops doing much of the enabling and secret dealings with the cartels themselves. These cops are having too much security and privacy all to themselves - out of a million cops, how many of them are drug users themselves? Many of them were too uneducated to graduate from a college with a degree, having already used drugs at some point in their lives, and others are just around drugs nearly everyday when being involved in making arrests or trying to keep peace at troubled homes - some of them get bribed just like Justin Bieber gets seduced by a line-up of women outside his trailer at a concert. I personally know some cops who smoked weed everyday when it was illegal in every state. Good luck with NSA on cracking down on the cops in this police state - monitoring their emails or internet activity won't be enough!
I'm all for putting an end to life-threatening drugs and child porn, but the authority itself is still human, and basically just as likely to be as corrupt as the peasants that they are supervising - in that sense, evil cannot ever truly be stopped. It's like a dog chasing its own tail.
For NSA to be truly effective, NSA would need to expand its workforce by an order of magnitude. I believe that NSA has no problem with monitoring Tor (of course, NSA wouldn't let us know) - it's how they're so effective with preventing terrorist attacks since 9/11. Obama still being alive today is proof of this. Yet, to be able to accurately monitor 300 million Americans would require a workforce of at least a million qualified and trusted inspectors with a fool-proof structure, unlike the police workforce system - it would require an extensive top-to-bottom supervision system within itself, as intensive as the Pentagon.
Problem is, the US Government does not care enough about internal domestic issues to really make that much of a difference in the short run. So much focus is on international affairs - while the middle/lower class just succumb to poverty, alcoholism, depression, poor health, and therefore extreme temptation for drug use due to hopelessness and boredom associated with unemployment. All the while, the government is letting a massive influx of illegal Mexican immigrants maintain a network of drug traffic, infesting many parts of the country as long as companies hiring them have them pay their own share of income tax... see the irony in all of this?
Truly, I'd like for NSA to spend as much effort on stopping child porn altogether as with preventing terrorism. But many of these guys are smart. Some of them are hackers who really know what to do to avoid detection while churning out legal adult porn - so it's always a tough cat-and-mouse game (usually tougher than catching those extremist fanatical terrorists running around on US soil).