Daily Show: January 31, 2013
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Do not gloat when your enemy falls. Did you know you can influence how God will treat those who sin against Him? If you express joy, God may withhold judgement.
Hosts: Crimson X, Ice_Fire, Levi, Wolfin
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Why are you skeptical about the benefits of the FBI being allowed to listen in on international conversations? You can overstate the benefits and understate the downsides, but it is also possible to do the opposite.
Personally, it’s a privacy issue. Same for most, I’d imagine. If I’m talking with someone, do I want the FBI knowing what I’m talking about? No. Am I a terrorist? No. So, despite the benefits of keeping the country safe, you have to wonder how much they’ve actually caught by spying on us.
Because there’s this pesky thing called a warrant that they don’t bother to obtain before eavesdropping. If you would like to provide the benefits of the FBI breaking the law without consequence, feel free to do so.
The problem with the benefits of counter-intelligence is that the details rarely come to our attention, or at least, such is my thought. So yes, security is the primary benefit, one which we can rarely see until it is gone (so naturally, we should put more faith in God than in human organizations.). But in the podcast, it seemed that the intent of the FBI was in question, or perhaps their competence. Is it not the duty of such organizations to make sure that we don’t have foreign covert/terrorism people entering and causing ruckus? Do they actually create some sense of security? As for whether they are moral or not, we all can attest to how corrupt our nation and all the other nations are (that also goes for most of the citizens in said nations). As for whether they follow by all the rules laid down by congress and the constitution, I cannot say. I don’t really know, but I do hope that most of the law breaking is taken care of appropriately (and I say most because things sometimes fall through the cracks.).
I was asking less for the benefits of counter-intelligence as a whole and more for the benefits of an agency breaking the law of the land without consequence (although from a constitutional perspective, neither the FBI nor CIA, to give two examples, should exist). And for them, breaking the law is not a rare occurrence and it is almost never addressed. Disrespect for the law of the land is epidemic and there is no branch of government that is exempt.
So yes, the intent of the FBI is in question. They cannot be trusted as a force for good.