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It's because it's not for your safety, it's for the safety of the established bureaucracy of government. Just look at the number of terrorists that were alread

It's because it's not for your safety, it's for the safety of the established bureaucracy of government. Just look at the number of terrorists that were already on the FBI's watchlist, and whose plots were foiled by random citizens stepping in rather than the FBI. (Hint: it's literally every one.) Even more incendiary, look at the number of school shooters that have been on LEO watchlists, and also failed to do anything to prevent tragedy. The brain dead rebuttal to this is something like civil rights getting in the way. But if civil rights are holding them back, why invade privacy at all if nothing actionable is going to be done.

unclebucknasty 2y ago
>it's for the safety of the established bureaucracy of government. Seems vague. What exactly does this assertion mean? Are you saying that they are collecting this information to blackmail people or something similar? Because I don't see people being defenestrated or otherwise prosecuted for threatening the "bureaucracy". On the contrary, there seems to be an all-out public assault on our government from some quarters. And who, exactly, is the "established bureaucracy" anyway?