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> This is not about you. This is not about your data Democracy means that your fellow citizens get a vote too. If you and those that agree with you can't craft
by karmacondon 12y ago
> This is not about you. This is not about your data
Democracy means that your fellow citizens get a vote too. If you and those that agree with you can't craft a message that appeals to them and their day-to-day concerns, the grandparent comment will continue to be quite correct.
- cryoshon 12y agoJust to be clear, there was never any kind of vote on any of these spying programs. The citizens never asked for this intrusion and would likely have resisted if they had been, so it was executed in secret, and would have remained a complete secret if not for Snowden. Nobody has even tried to "craft a message that appeals to the public" until AFTER the fact, when their overreach had been exposed. A democracy generally works by citizens' issue A going to politicians B and being passed after debate to agency C which effects action D; in our situation currently the NSA has decided that it is in the best interest of itself to effect surveillance. It isn't democracy in action no matter how you attempt to spin it.
- bmelton 12y agoWhich is why we have a Constitutionally limited system of democracy. The rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are inviolable, even by a majority. The suppression of the minority factions by the majority is always popular, which is exactly why the bill of rights exists.