>The number of stopped terror attacks in the West over the last decade is
quite large
Bull. Fucking. Crap.
For example, according to this[1] source, there have been not even 50 terror
attacks against America in the last 90 years. And while the amount seems to
have increased recently, this surely has absolutely nothing to do with the US
playing world police and giving more and more people reasons to hate them (not
that this excuses terror attacks, but you get the point).
This whole bullshit is a gigantic pile of FUD and propaganda. There is no
terror threat. There never has been any. At least not more than randomly
getting shot on the street or dying in a car crash caused by a drunk driver. I
don't see people pushing for universal surveillance of the blood alcohol of all
drivers or some other nonsense.
The whole thing is so fucktardedly ridiculous that the FBI regularly invents
terror suspects[2], and arrests them "last minute" to then claim it has "once again
eliminated a threat to national security". Everything's fair game to continue
their bullshit pushes for more surveillance and less civil liberty. And what's
even more enraging: people like you buy it.
Conclusion: No, we don't need surveillance. No, we don't need fed agencies
spying on everyone and everything and no one to keep them in check (who watches
the watchmen?). No, we don't need bullshit laws that further and further
infringe on every human's civil liberties and human rights for no reason but
"um... well... uh... BUT TERRORISM!!!1!1oneoneeleven".
Bull. Fucking. Crap.
For example, according to this[1] source, there have been not even 50 terror attacks against America in the last 90 years. And while the amount seems to have increased recently, this surely has absolutely nothing to do with the US playing world police and giving more and more people reasons to hate them (not that this excuses terror attacks, but you get the point).
This whole bullshit is a gigantic pile of FUD and propaganda. There is no terror threat. There never has been any. At least not more than randomly getting shot on the street or dying in a car crash caused by a drunk driver. I don't see people pushing for universal surveillance of the blood alcohol of all drivers or some other nonsense.
The whole thing is so fucktardedly ridiculous that the FBI regularly invents terror suspects[2], and arrests them "last minute" to then claim it has "once again eliminated a threat to national security". Everything's fair game to continue their bullshit pushes for more surveillance and less civil liberty. And what's even more enraging: people like you buy it.
Conclusion: No, we don't need surveillance. No, we don't need fed agencies spying on everyone and everything and no one to keep them in check (who watches the watchmen?). No, we don't need bullshit laws that further and further infringe on every human's civil liberties and human rights for no reason but "um... well... uh... BUT TERRORISM!!!1!1oneoneeleven".
[1]: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001454.html [2]: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/...