I would highly agree a lot of issues get lost in partisan bullshit arguments.
For this particular issue, I might actually not object to what the NSA is doing (it depends on what they're doing, I'm not clear on what exactly it is they're doing). The AP phone taps I have no support for, and of course I don't support what the IRS was doing.
But as far as the NSA goes, I don't yet know what my opinion is, except that I believe Islamicist terrorists are something we'll have for another decade or two, but I doubt they'll be around 50 years from now. The government, on the other hand, will be. Should the government have this power (to use too stop terrorist attacks) indefinitely? Will they use it (and all the advances to come) on the Mafia? Street gangs? Murderers? Rapists? Armed Robbers? Burglars? ...And will they not use it on political opponents?
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For this particular issue, I might actually not object to what the NSA is doing (it depends on what they're doing, I'm not clear on what exactly it is they're doing). The AP phone taps I have no support for, and of course I don't support what the IRS was doing.
But as far as the NSA goes, I don't yet know what my opinion is, except that I believe Islamicist terrorists are something we'll have for another decade or two, but I doubt they'll be around 50 years from now. The government, on the other hand, will be. Should the government have this power (to use too stop terrorist attacks) indefinitely? Will they use it (and all the advances to come) on the Mafia? Street gangs? Murderers? Rapists? Armed Robbers? Burglars? ...And will they not use it on political opponents?