Whether these means are effective or not is definitely besided the point. The US government is doing everything it can to promote terrorism abroad. At home, in the name of fighting terrorism, it is pressing on all sides to claim privilege over the rights of individuals and the legal mechanisms that guarantee those rights. In other words it is dismantling American democracy. US corporations have already demonstrated that they won't stand in the way. The opposition party can't muster enough opposition even to open a meaningful debate on the blatently illegal and unconstitutional actions of the ruling party. And the public at large is not connecting the dots sufficiently to realize that the relatively elegant political system into which it was born has entered its endgame. We are allowing terrorism to defeat democracy.
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One might wonder why we wish the survival of a species that has destroyed its own habitat. Are there greener pastures to destroy in outer space?
How are you in a position to know that they are not bad given the absence of oversight. Trust?
Whether these means are effective or not is definitely besided the point. The US government is doing everything it can to promote terrorism abroad. At home, in the name of fighting terrorism, it is pressing on all sides to claim privilege over the rights of individuals and the legal mechanisms that guarantee those rights. In other words it is dismantling American democracy. US corporations have already demonstrated that they won't stand in the way. The opposition party can't muster enough opposition even to open a meaningful debate on the blatently illegal and unconstitutional actions of the ruling party. And the public at large is not connecting the dots sufficiently to realize that the relatively elegant political system into which it was born has entered its endgame. We are allowing terrorism to defeat democracy.
At the end of the day the lads are just trying to get laid. Nothing so unique about that. But with any luck it will work.