Spanky, you bring up good points, I have read of the sheer impracticallity of trying to search a 1 yottabyte database (indexing the files would take up larger amounts of space than most supercomputers) , but as you said this is not really the point. Knowing that they can or at least have the capability to record and save every text, email, phone call every american will ever make is, I believe, the fear they want to stir up. Even in the DDR (East Germany) though every one beleived they had a Stasi file on them, it was reveled after the fall of the wall only 10 percent or people ever did. I think the point is to give regular people the feeling of authority and keep the average person in check (much like the UK cctv). I recieved my degree in Political Science/International Relations, so have studied Chomsky, Machiaveli, and the like, it does not take much to subvert a society. AS for the trouble in receiving warrants for everyone, the answer is there is no trouble in this, they dont need them
NSA warrantless surveillance controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patriot act is a complete step backwards in terms of our civil liberties
I like this thread. As out there as things may get, the founding fathers still believed it was our patriotic duty to question our government
NSA warrantless surveillance controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patriot act is a complete step backwards in terms of our civil liberties
I like this thread. As out there as things may get, the founding fathers still believed it was our patriotic duty to question our government

