I see ox blood.
Have you noticed that your ox was gored "this time"?
Five months ago some supposedly 'serious people' around the country, motivated by fear and also a desire to distract (not necessarily in that order), wanted to root out 'the crazies' by searching medical records and pharmacy records for signs of mental illness and use of SSRI's. The purpose of that snooping was so the US wouldn't have more mass shootings of 6-30 people.
Now, we learn, that, in part, to keep hundreds and thousands from being injured and/or killed in bombings and to facilitate catching those who perpetrate such crimes, the NSA has been collecting and archiving telephone routing info for pretty much every call about which they can get records.
Certainly seems to me, there is a lot less support for "this" sort of snooping.
This experience has given me a not so sneaky suspicion that the social lesson is "we" believe "It's ok to snoop on someone else."
It's undoubtedly largely a matter of human nature. I don't mean to caste any blame.
I just find it worth noting that when looking to protect "us", "we" seem to be especially OK with advocating snooping on someone else. Yet, it quite pisses us off to be 'snooped upon'.
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