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In a country of 330 million people, with massively global interests, you're going to have to do a lot better than rare examples. In a country so large with so
by adventured 6y ago
In a country of 330 million people, with massively global interests, you're going to have to do a lot better than rare examples.
In a country so large with so many different government agencies, entities, organizations, and interests, just about anything you can think of will have happened at some point. The question is whether it's going on at large scale, whether it's the common practice or rare.
You're trying to use one example to prove that the practice is common, when in fact that's false, it's not common it's rare. It's the exception, not the rule; which is exactly why it makes for an attention getting story.
- johnisgood 6y agoI have no idea whether it is happening or not at a large enough scale. I did not mean to prove anything, just wished to shed light on it. How do we know it is not happening though? Think about pre-Snowden.
- baybal2 6y ago> In a country of 330 million people, with massively global interests, you're going to have to do a lot better than rare examples. USA doesn't have massive global interest. Maybe its companies, but not it's state. USA is a very insular, and static system of a state. It's a good example what happens in those very few cases when the machine of US state moves, and what is characteristic of it. A meaningful political reform will start with somebody starting to uncork it, and forcefully subjecting it to contact with outside world.