What do you think about domestic surveillance for national security?
BY JULIE
WIATT
Steve Gillick:(at left) "Well, if you quote me and put my name in the paper then NSA will start tapping my phone. I guess you won't find many people who approve of it unless they work for the NSA."
Emily Prevo: (above)"I don't think that's necessarily anything new. I think they've probably been doing it on some level for quite some time. And I wouldn't think it would really have an effect on the average person. In the same way the internet is easy to figure out who's visiting what page, you may think you're making a private call but unless you've got a secure government line, it's not necessarily true."
Ginny Hughes : "I just think it's another sign of fascism, a police state, big brother watching you. And Greg Palast says it's going to be used to focus on the 2008 elections. I think it's a sign of fear and paranoia of a white man in a business suit. It's not just the Bush regime but it goes back: Bush junior, Cheney, Bush senior, Clinton, Nixon. I put them all in there -- men who are fearful, insecure and greedy. And people are suffering and struggling; it's heartbreaking really."
John Dunn: "I think it's an unwarranted intrusion in our lives. It's like getting our library records. I think it's unlikely to result in any meaningful information being gathered, and it's likely to be overturned by the courts."
Anonymous: "I wouldn't want my answer published because then I'd be on somebody's list. And don't publish that because that would put me on somebody's list."
Steve Waters: (above, left) "Whatever they've got to do to make the country safer. They already have your phone numbers anyway, so it doesn't really make any difference."
Shane Young: (above, right) "I think it's fine. It's not really an invasion of privacy. Now if they tapped the line and listened it would get a little creepy."
Elisheva Shalom: (below) "It's wrong. I think it's ridiculous that the president is wasting time, money and energy on this. It shows the president has become so insecure and paranoid he needs to do this. He's making the people paranoid about the government with his paranoia about the people."
Dresia Vaughn:(far right) "I don't like it . They're invading people's privacy. I call it a file that doesn't belong to them. Slowly our rights will be taken away from us. The amendments will not matter. It's almost like this country is turning communist, little by little."
James Phelps: (on left) "What would they say if we monitored their calls? I'm going to run for president in 2008. You can quote me on that."
Larry Twombly: (middle) "What you asked is a leading question, and a leading question implies an answer, but this notion about the government spying on the average citizen is something the government does not have the resources to do. They are totally uninterested in what we say in our private conversations, as long as we are not connected to a terrorist group. I call it liberal fear-mongering."
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