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(I am not an american) OK, so obama approves all this today. Don't you guys think he has the common sense to think that he will be a target tomorrow himself wh

(I am not an american) OK, so obama approves all this today. Don't you guys think he has the common sense to think that he will be a target tomorrow himself when he is no longer president? His wife and kids and their families? Such things are definitely to worry about in dictatorial countries but nothing to be 'paranoid' about in democracies. While I don't condone the government for monitoring data, I will have to 'respect' their decision if they think it's the way to go about providing security. After all, they were elected by the people and people have to trust them for their brains. The whole prism thing is completely blown up because media has nothing else to talk about right now. It's just waiting for another news to happen and everyone will move on.

akiselev 13y ago
This would never happen. As far as I know, the US has never had a violent change of power except for the Civil War and former Presidents and their spouses are protected for life by the secret service. When the guy you want to target is very well known and knows the country's deepest darkest secrets, there's nothing you can do. Everyone else, however, well... we won't be so lucky. Edit: And no, it is they who must trust us. We must never trust them and we must always be vigilant, always looking over their shoulder, ready to squash their wretched political careers at the slightest infraction against democracy.
chimeracoder 13y ago
> Don't you guys think he has the common sense to think that he will be a target tomorrow himself when he is no longer president? His wife and kids and their families? That depends on whether or not we think that he and his family will be beholden to the same rules as everyone else. Many of us would argue that that is a faulty assumption.
- general_failure 13y ago
  But a smart person is bound to think that this will happen to him tomorrow _regardless_ of the state today. If you were the president, wouldn't you think you are prone to surveillance despite being president today? I definitely would. I know that when my time is up anything can happen to me. Future presidents can repeal all sorts of powers the same way I as president did.

akiselev 13y ago

This would never happen. As far as I know, the US has never had a violent change of power except for the Civil War and former Presidents and their spouses are protected for life by the secret service. When the guy you want to target is very well known and knows the country's deepest darkest secrets, there's nothing you can do. Everyone else, however, well... we won't be so lucky. Edit: And no, it is they who must trust us. We must never trust them and we must always be vigilant, always looking over their shoulder, ready to squash their wretched political careers at the slightest infraction against democracy.

chimeracoder 13y ago

> Don't you guys think he has the common sense to think that he will be a target tomorrow himself when he is no longer president? His wife and kids and their families? That depends on whether or not we think that he and his family will be beholden to the same rules as everyone else. Many of us would argue that that is a faulty assumption.

general_failure 13y ago
But a smart person is bound to think that this will happen to him tomorrow _regardless_ of the state today. If you were the president, wouldn't you think you are prone to surveillance despite being president today? I definitely would. I know that when my time is up anything can happen to me. Future presidents can repeal all sorts of powers the same way I as president did.