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"We teach people they should mind their own business," he says, but "that's extremely bad advice. It's dangerous because you won't see the terrorist next door making a bomb; you won't see the kids being abused, or the husband beating up a wife. If there wasn't any eavesdropping, if people minded their own business and ignored what they saw and heard, how would you prevent and how would you solve crimes?"

*facepalm* George Orwell called. He said Big Brother is watching you. And *gasp* Big Brother is still Russian.

Ugh so retarded.

So it's my duty as a citizen to eavesdrop on people so crimes get solved? Good to know I'm supposed to be part of this crime-solving career that I never wanted.

Like Nightwatch and the Ministry of Truth say, "TRAITORS CAN'T HIDE."

/scared

Remember, a slander against Earth is a slander against truth!

The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father.

"Earth doesn't have homeless. We don't have the problem. Yes, there are some displaced people, here and there, but they've chosen to be in their position. They're either lazy or they're criminal or they're mentally unstable. EarthGov has promised a job to everyone that wants one. So, if someone doesn't have a job, they must not want one."

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juliet316 - 2010-09-14 19:41 (UTC) - Expand

Just make sure your neighbor doesn't see you messing with fireworks! They might think it's a bomb. Lock yourself out of your house? Might as well just go ahead and call the cops, you know people are going to. Talking on a cellphone? Forget privacy, everyone around you has a social obligation to hear your conversation.

You know, because everyone is either a terrorist, an abused child, or a wife-beater. There are no normal, law-abiding, privacy-loving people anymore. If you want privacy, there's OBVIOUSLY something wrong with you!

[/sarcasm]

I had roommates who were arrested 3 weeks after 9/11 for LARPing with a real-looking cap gun because some little girl saw "people shooting each other outside" & the mom called 5-0.

Granted, said roommates were METEORICALLY FUCKING CRAZY (with intenet proof as evidence), but still...overreaction. And I never DID get an apology for cops pointing their guns at me.

Back just after 9/11, my high school suspended a girl for having nail clippers at school. Nail clippers. A girl. Go figure a girl would have stuff to fix a nail in her purse, right? *facepalm*

I love the stories about women being detained at airports because their underwires were setting off the metal detector, & then declined to be physically searched by people who could not grasp the concept of "inferential logic." Gee, if her tits are that big, I wonder would could possible by make the wand go off near mid-torso?

Did you hear the one about the woman who got detained for bringing breast milk for her baby aboard a plane and refusing to taste some of it?

Elementary school kid got suspended for bringing scissors to school. Words cannot describe how happy I am that I'm long gone from that mess. Ooo, scary, my office has metal scissors, a stapler, a staple remover, a hole punch and *HORROR* a shredder. Office supplies are scary, ya know.

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ravensson - 2010-09-14 19:54 (UTC) - Expand

Last time I flew, in April, I specifically wore just a t shirt and leggings, so I wouldn't have to worry about remembering to empty pockets or anything.

Barefoot, no jewelry, no pockets...and my I cup tits are beeping..hmmm, wonder what it could be? Surely not the 1/3" wide wires in my bra! I must have told them half a dozen times that I had an underwire bra on, before they whisked me off to a giant plastic box, and sent a woman in to frisk me.

Honestly..I'm not sure which freaks me out more - the fact that they haven't figured out that underwires set the metal detector off, or the fact that the woman ran her hands down my sides, stared at me for a minute, shrugged, and went "Oh well, I don't know what it is, go ahead."

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darth_eldritch - 2010-09-15 00:23 (UTC) - Expand

I guess I'm betraying society or something, but I kind of prefer it when people mind their own business. Because really, I'm not that interested in anyone else's business.

That's unAmerican.

Actually, that just means that she's a good, traditional New Englander--keeping herself to herself and minding her own business.

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gandhicrushkill - 2010-09-15 01:23 (UTC) - Expand

Terrorist!

It seems somebody failed to realize there's a difference between eavesdropping and actively engaging the people around you. One doesn't need to to eavesdrop to notice the bruises on a child.

And further more, not eavesdropping=/=minding ones own business either.

><' I can't believe stuff like this gets published. Is the world that paranoid? Or just that needing of an excuse to get at other people's private info? (or both?)

...I feel better in my decision about coming here and leaving LJ behind.

I'm thinking people in charge would LOVE for the masses to be that paranoid. Paranoid people are easy to control. Dictatorships have been using that tactic for a very long time. Hell, that's what Animal Farm, 1984, and Fatherland were all about. Thinking for yourself is dangerous. You start to get ideas. Better to believe what Big Brother and the Thought Police tell you to believe.

/sighs

What's sad is that it works.

Yep. What's sad is that even Fahrenheit 451 is coming true. They aren't burning the books, though. They're digitizing them, making them into convenient little travel sized bits that slowly but surely are never getting read again.

Hell, when Twilight came out, I was happy. Thrilled. It got my younger cousin, who hadn't read a book in YEARS, to read the entire series.

/hides books

They can't them away! :<

I can't stand reading ebooks. And it's just not the same as having a physical copy. Nothing beats the smell of an old, well-loved book.

;;

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destinyislands - 2010-09-15 02:06 (UTC) - Expand

Excuse me, but they are. >_<

And there's nothing wrong with digitizing books, just like there was nothing wrong with going from clay tablets to papyrus to parchment to paper. I for one would rather carry my ten textbooks on my e-reader than having to lug 300-page hardcover books so I can study for my exams during my lunch break at work.

And *gasp* Big Brother is still Russian.

:/ can we not

+1000. This is not an issue of nationalities and Russia is not out to get "you"!! >_<