Germans and Englishmen in the news

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:32:55 GMT, rw
wrote:

wrote:
Scott Seidman wrote:

That's why this latest move of the Admin to bypass the Court might just be
their downfall. I think this is gonna get a whole lot worse for them, and I
doubt it will get better before these guys are out of office.


I doubt it, Scott: the right wing will convince the public that
no God-fearing law-abiding US citizen has anything to fear
from this and it is only the bad guys who are being monitored.

That particular line of bull**** isn't working as well these days.

For non-thinking people, perhaps, but for anyone who has just a little
imagination it is a bunch of kaka to think that NSA would monitor
them. NSA has the facilities to monitor just about anything, but
gleaning any info from such intercepts would be impossible. And why,
pray tell, would NSA waste assets monitoring you, me, anyone on roff?

"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:32:55 GMT, rw
wrote:

wrote:
Scott Seidman wrote:

That's why this latest move of the Admin to bypass the Court might just
be
their downfall. I think this is gonna get a whole lot worse for them,
and I
doubt it will get better before these guys are out of office.


I doubt it, Scott: the right wing will convince the public that
no God-fearing law-abiding US citizen has anything to fear
from this and it is only the bad guys who are being monitored.

That particular line of bull**** isn't working as well these days.

For non-thinking people, perhaps, but for anyone who has just a little
imagination it is a bunch of kaka to think that NSA would monitor
them.

Insofar as twisted reasoning can be thought of as amusing (and it most
certainly is) this has to be the best post in the history of ROFF!


It would indeed take a healthy dollop of imagination for one to suppose that
being monitored by NSA is absurd.

NSA has the facilities to monitor just about anything, but
gleaning any info from such intercepts would be impossible.

As has been clearly demonstrated time and again, eh? I mean, there's that
Oklahoma City thingy.....and then there's two (or three.....dpends on how
you count them) little incidents at the World Trade Center, for starters.
Now, I have no idea what the NSA's budget looks like but it seems to me that
if it's impossible for them to glean any information from all of their
monitoring.....and it does kinda look like you're right about that.....then
the money could probably be better used elsewhere.

And why,
pray tell, would NSA waste assets monitoring you, me, anyone on roff?

Well, if they know exactly who they should be monitoring and who not, then
why haven't they already rounded up all the bad guys?

Wolfgang
who begins to see why it is that a bunch of castaways on a desert island a
couple of hundred yards from the mainland (who receive regular, if brief,
visits from intellectual giants like gorillas) can be marooned for several
years.