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Every additional person you add to a watchlist is one more piece of hay for the haystack. They can't even watch the people that they are directly told about by
by hyperion2010 11y ago
Every additional person you add to a watchlist is one more piece of hay for the haystack. They can't even watch the people that they are directly told about by mental health professionals. Feel free to be paranoid about watchlists, but I'm more worried about the fact that such behavior stinks of complete and utter incompetence of people who think adding all 300 million US citizens to one is a remotely productive idea.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoThis isn't a good thing. It just means that any one of us can be pulled in for interrogation, while actual villains get lost in the haystack. Two wrongs for the price of one!
- Lawtonfogle 11y ago>They can't even watch the people that they are directly told about by mental health professionals. And this is why there is a distrust of mental health professionals. Why would you seek help if it could result in being watched if not worse. Imagine if doctors reported drug users to the police; people would rather risk handling an overdose on their own than getting help and then being punished.
- nefitty 11y agoThat is already a real problem among hard drug users. Some deaths occur because the overdose's company flee fearing prosecution for their own drug use.
- crpatino 11y ago> Every additional person you add to a watchlist is one more piece of hay for the haystack. That's only valid under the assumption that the people doing the adding do care about the haystack problem. If their managers set quotas, the quotas will be met; damned if innocents get harassed and criminals get lost in the crowd.