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This also applies to naturalized Americans. Why do they need "vetting" after being granted citizenship?

• mtgx 9y ago
  Or for the permanent citizens. Isn't the so-called "vetting" supposed to happen before they arrive to the U.S.? If they do post-arrival vetting, for how long will they be allowed to do it? 1 year? 5? 20? It's just another BS excuse to use mass surveillance against as many people as they can. They start with immigrants, then they invent some other reason for some other category of Americans, and so on. This is the "problem" with surveillance technology getting ever cheaper. It gives them an irresistible desire to apply it more and more, even where it's not absolutely necessary, as the cost is no longer an impediment, so "might as well." I have the same opinion on killer drones or killer robots for that matter. The cheaper they will become to use, the more they will be used. Eventually they'll run out of "real targets" and start sending them after less important targets, too. Killer drones are not "the same as an airstrike", as I've seen many say on various forums, for this very reason, just like mass surveillance done today is not the same as the targeted surveillance done decades ago against real targets, as some were implying immediately after Snowden released his documents.