Anti-terror measures and administrations by no means exist because it's a safety concern. Looking at the numbers and comparing with actual safety problems, it just isn't. Creating an anti-lightning, anti-alligator or anti-child molester task force with the same budget would make more sense from that point of view.
You think it's a joke, but there's a branch of the US government that has exactly that. Think of any potential accident or discriminatory/negatively viewed behavior and there's a group of people who's jobs are largely dedicated to battling these things.
That said,
this is wrong. Not that they're doing it, because let's face it, if you were in charge, would you not? It's not that 'the government is greedy' or anything like that. It's simpler. You always act in your own (unless you're batshit crazy) self-interest, don't you? What's wrong is that our government got caught. We
can't accept this in public. It's fine if it never came out, but once shit like this just keeps coming back to the spotlight, you kind of have to take a stand and say something about it.
It's like this. If I had a crazy serial killer dad who killed off random people I didn't like, I wouldn't care. If I found out he was doing this, I'd get mad and tell him to turn himself in or I'd call the police myself.
That's enough with overblown analogies. Sorry guys.
It's
easy to settle back and claim that's inevitable and there's no real freedom, but you are free to change it if you're an American citizen. You just need to make enough friends. Friends who whine a lot.
I guess I lied about the analogies thing, but this last one was less of one. Right?
Really, though. Say something. To anyone. Don't argue, though, unless you've got a Philosophy degree or something. We can't force education on everyone, but we can preach at them until they just believe what we're saying.
