Regarding the proposed FISA amendments, one scene always sticks out in my head:
Senator: "Telecommunications and privacy act? Invasion of privacy act more like! This bill is not the first step to a surveillance society, this bill is the surveillance society"
Republican Politician: "Liberal hysteria"
Senator: "I'm not going to let the Government point a damm camera and microphone at anything they damm well please"
Republican Politician: "We both know, we are a nation at war. The most hated nation om Earth. Do I have to tell you all the lives that have been saved through judicious use of surveillance?"
When this film first came out (Enemy of the State), myself and the people I was watching it with thought how ridiculous this would be. How could a Government justify completely trampling over people's rights and freedoms without a massive backlash occuring. Fast-forward seven years in the future, and it seems we have not only reached, but surpassed that point.
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Regarding the proposed FISA amendments, one scene always sticks out in my head:
Senator: "Telecommunications and privacy act? Invasion of privacy act more like! This bill is not the first step to a surveillance society, this bill is the surveillance society"
Republican Politician: "Liberal hysteria"
Senator: "I'm not going to let the Government point a damm camera and microphone at anything they damm well please"
Republican Politician: "We both know, we are a nation at war. The most hated nation om Earth. Do I have to tell you all the lives that have been saved through judicious use of surveillance?"
When this film first came out (Enemy of the State), myself and the people I was watching it with thought how ridiculous this would be. How could a Government justify completely trampling over people's rights and freedoms without a massive backlash occuring. Fast-forward seven years in the future, and it seems we have not only reached, but surpassed that point.