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Is the US Gov. not like that? Wars of aggression, torture, massive prisonner population, ... it makes sense for them to spy on themselves.
by gatehouse 13y ago
Is the US Gov. not like that? Wars of aggression, torture, massive prisonner population, ... it makes sense for them to spy on themselves.
- nickff 13y agoComparing the US government to the USSR demonstrates a complete lack of historical knowledge.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Soviet_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Sovi... [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechos...
- Spooky23 13y agoThe point isn't the Soviet Union was some wonderful thing. We declared the Russians to be the main enemy during the cold war, and devoted considerable resources to spying on them. We recorded personal phone calls, leveraged any information to get more info, etc. We probably spied on undesirables who were suspected "communists" in the US as well. If you were in the bubble of the "intelligence community", you had no problem with that. Fast forward to 2014. The enemy isn't a nation but an activity -- "terrorism" (maybe "drugs" as well). Because that activity can happen anywhere, the scope of the "enemy" changed from hostile nations to ANYONE. Someone like Feinstein, who is a patriot, is deeply affected when she realizes that she, too is the enemy.