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You lost me at "(and [spying on] everyone else too)". Spying on other countries is what the NSA is built to do, and it's for good reason. Every country does it,
by carlosdp 13y ago
You lost me at "(and [spying on] everyone else too)". Spying on other countries is what the NSA is built to do, and it's for good reason. Every country does it, that's how geopolitics work. The issue people have here is spying on US Citizens, which is not what they're supposed to be doing.
- l33tbro 13y agoPoppycock. Give me some "good reasons" why spying on the private lives of citizens of ally countries is not an act of terrorism?
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Give me some "good reasons" why spying on the private lives of citizens of ally countries is not an act of terrorism? Because terrorism is the use of violence or threat of violence directed at civilian populations or otherwise outside the generally accepted norms of warfare to effect political change, and spying, while it may support the use or threat of violence, is, in and of itself, neither the use nor threat of violence.
- marcosdumay 13y agoWell, is blackmail a kind of violence? (honest question)
- dragonwriter 13y agoDoesn't really matter, because as with violence (or “other forms of violence”, if you prefer), spying isn’t blackmail, even if it might be used to support blackmail.
- marcosdumay 13y agoSpying is as good a "threat of blackmail" as one can get.