What if!

[cowboyup]

I dont believe it's right to be monitored in every thing you do. When the government say well its for the good of everyone, is it? I'm not sure it is, are we going to become a society that is totally recorded and checked and searched just because someone may want to blow something up or be a bad example for others. For example being patted down while entering a school even because of a lead that someone may want to disrupt the event. OK, if there is reasonable belief that someone plans to do something to violate others thats fine take care of it take those people aside and resolve the problem. And when i say reasonable belief I think administrators should know who the people are and what they may be planning, not just oh someone may want to be a disruption lets check everyone to make sure it dosnt happen. I believe that violates my personal rights, especially if they have no evidence of me planning to do anything. Is everything going to become the question of "what if"? Anything can happen and there are ways to prevent them, but no way to predict it. I think the government and higher authorities have already started using new technology to keep track of people in airports ,schools, stores, gas stations, sports events, and even on city streets. New technology is created everyday just for the purpose of survallance and i think we're playing with fire here and are bound to burn ourselves. :rage:

[starrwriter]

I dont believe it's right to be monitored in every thing you do. When the government say well its for the good of everyone, is it? I'm not sure it is ...
I think of it as creeping totalitarianism. It's a specious argument to say if you have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, you shouldn't mind being monitored by the government. In a society that has so many laws and regulations virtually everyone is guilty of some infraction and the only real crime is getting caught. You will notice that lawmakers and government officials usually exempt themselves from the most intrusive forms of surveillance -- for "national security" reasons, of course.

[LakeSenior]

Personally, I would rather have the government watch me as I live my normal life than be blown to bits on main street.

Freedom is slavery

[starrwriter]

Personally, I would rather have the government watch me as I live my normal life than be blown to bits on main street.
If you want to find out how suspicious the government could construe your "normal" life, write to the FBI and demand to see all government files about you and your parents using the Freedom of Information Act. You will be under surveillance in no time.

[Edge]

Cowboyup,I agree with you completely. I believe that if our society is not careful about how far we take surveillance issues, we may be heading down the same path that orwell predicted. I do think that maybe people should wait to have a reasonable suspicion before feeling the need to pat people down before they enter the school building.