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How can you say this and then proceed to distrust the government and show it your distrust?

• malandrew 13y ago
  Maybe because they've lied on numerous occasions. Every 2 or 4 years the nation chooses to trust another group of people, many of which quickly lose the trust of those they are supposed to be representing. A government is not a single entity, but it made of individuals. I trust some of those individuals more than others. Hiding one of the biggest surveillance programs without ever getting consent for it, is a complete and utter betrayal of trust. I trusted them to respect the 1st and 4th amendment. That trust was betrayed when they choose to play fast and loose with those two constitutional rights. Now that we are demanding to know what is going on, they retreat to more lies as opposed to opening up and trying to earn that trust back.