FBI has been watching ACLU, Greenpeace, other rights groups

Follow the teaching of the great chairman Mao, never trust anyone. Spy on anyone that looks suspicious, that includes your own family.

 

I know many AARP members are angry that the AARP has essentially split into two parts; the first being the retired person's advocacy group and the second being a business which ruthlessly makes money off of retired people.

Also, many AARP members join for the discounts on lodging and the like. The number of political activists suggested by the membership numbers which they quote is actually quite overblown.

 

You want maximum security? Sure, it's easy: end this silly democratic experiment and have our country turned into a police state like those in the M.E. or elsewhere.

As long as there are more and more citizens who are more than willing to give up their civil rights in order to "feel secure", then this country's future is in serious jeopardy.

Whether you notice it or not, that's an outright admission by you that the concept of a "free society" is idealistic, impractical, and endangers the security of a nation.

How does spying on its own citizenry differentiate the US from any other police state?

 

I'm confused. What civil right, exactly, is being infringed upon here? *the twist* You can't use the so called "right to privacy" which I have never seen proven to exist.