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Yes, I support the current NSA surveillance program. It is necessary to protect our country from terrorist attacks | |
1 (3%) |
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No, I don't support the current NSA surveillance program. It's too intrusive and could be used a as an instrument of political repression | |
32 (97%) |
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dawg
(10,626 posts)But I do support YOU, NSA agent Bob!
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Th1onein
(8,514 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)One can be for or against this program regardless what they think of President Obama or Edward Snowden or Glenn Greenwald.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)There could be many other reasons folks might 'support' or 'not support' the current NSA program other than what is stated in those 'second sentences'.
I was just trying to point that out.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They ask, "Do you support the leaking of intelligence if it get's people killed?" and when people say, "No" they claim that's proof that we shouldn't know the government is spying on the Girl Scouts.
Th1onein
(8,514 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Also, I'm not a racist.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I figured it was your clever way to discourage more "yes" votes because none of the authoritarians would want to be seen in your company.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Too bad I'm banned from the BOG, a few kind words from me could shut that puppy down for good.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Send them running and screaming!
How dastardly! I like it.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Wipe out?
You are powerful my friend.
think
(11,641 posts)Thank you!
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Looks like most DUers have principles...Bush Obama Group is just cheerleaders.
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)Anymouse
(120 posts). . . and thus you have nothing to fear, because the NSA does not get the content of your messages is of course a strawman.
Consider:
You get a telephone call from your doctor, after which you call a confidential HIV testing service, then your health insurance company. But they do not know what the content of your calls were.
You get an E-mail from your local National Rifle Association organiser, after which you telephone your senators and your representative. But they do not know why you called.
You logged in to Ashley Madison and spent ninety minutes, immediately after which you made a ten-minute local telephone call, but no one can surmise the content of either what you viewed on the Website nor the context of your call.
You received an E-mail from an organisation planning a protest, after which you call the organisation and chat for fifteen minutes. But no one can deduce what the call was about.
You call a suicide prevention hotline and chat for half an hour, then a psychiatrist for ten minutes, but the content of your calls are secret.
This is why the Fourth Amendment prohibits dragnets. All sorts of legal activity, in the wrong hands, can be used to blackmail or ruin a person. Just ask Valerie Plame.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)What channel is it on?
Cirrusly... has any one else noticed that the gaggle of geese who were running around with their tails aflame, trying to tell us there was nothing to the story, have almost all flown away?
I call that them folks getting educated. Good show DU!
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)temmer
(358 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)carolinayellowdog
(3,247 posts)and the results confirm my impression that the pro-NSA bunch are a tiny minority of loudmouthed griefers
DLevine
(1,788 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)I do not support the growth industry of mass surveillance.
I don't care who is in power. I don't want them to have that power.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)It's a good, straight forward poll, though.