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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Trust, We Do it Every Day

Foreign Policy Magazine posted one of the best poorly titled pieces in my opinion recently. The author explains how your calls will not be monitored, recorded, or viewed unless you happen to fall into a very suspect group of people, so the title may be a little sensationalist. The idea that who we call is our own information obviously has never watched The Wire by HBO, and if you're shocked by this, go watch the The Wire....it's really really good. Drop phones, layers of knowledge, and more are present in the show, and you have to wonder how much of that is present in terrorist networks.

On a side note, I always wonder about those people who say, "I can't trust the government". Well, I do trust this government to follow the rules, and when it does break them, it'll be stupid enough to get caught. Trust is an important part of our everyday lives. When I merge onto the interstate I trust I won't get hit; when I was young my parents trusted the neighborhood boy down the street to babysit me; I trust Facebook to keep a lot of my photos. In this globalized world that we live in we can't fear or distrust everyone irrationally. Car accidents happen, kids get hurt, and servers crash. It doesn't mean that I trust completely, but rather I try to know what I can, and trust to fate I'll get home safe every day. With the thousands of journalists who monitor the government for any little wrong it's not surprising that any wrong move the government makes gets jumped on by big organizations like the NYT.
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  1. GregAugust 27, 2013 at 9:39 PM

    "Well, I do trust this government to follow the rules"

    See how wrong you are now. Snowden revealed things that the incompetent and corrupt NYT and the rest of the media missed for years. Perhaps, with a little more experience in the real world, you will realize the wisdom of Madison and the other founders that government cannot be trusted and thus its powers must be limited.

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  2. UnknownAugust 27, 2013 at 11:16 PM

    It's powers are limited. If anything we've learned that the FISA court has done its job well and struck down a number of policies set in place by the NSA.* The checks and balances that America uses to limit the power of government is also present in the NSA and intelligence sphere.


    *http://www.npr.org/2013/08/22/214357414/fisa-court-nsa-surveillance-program-was-unconstitutional

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