How would you feel if you found out you were being spied on by the feds?
How would you feel if you discovered you were being spied on by the feds? Say you got close to someone at work, he/she was a very pleasant and nice person, sometimes they invite you to a BBQ and you sometimes attend, you invite them to a trip to the beach or a mixer etc, and sometimes they accept. But you discover because of your social relationship with them the feds have been tailing you, and your family, questing people you know, digging into your past and private life because they suspect the person you know to be involved in terrorism. If you had no ideal they could have been involved in anything but now you are being dissected like a frog on an examination table what would you feel or think about it even though this social friend was never arrested or charged?
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i wouldnt like it at all…..but who knows with terrorism??
back in the 80s when I was wild, there was a picture of me in the Memphis FBI office.
I certainly wasnt a terrorist, just a mutant.
I know you feel violated. I’m sorry you have to go through it.
Conflicted. On one hand- fine, it’s good to gather info and keep people safe. On the other hand- pissed off because if they’re investigating me they’re wasting their time and should move on to more pressing matters.
I’m OK with it. How else are they going to find the guys who are planning something bad?
I figure it is like walking through the X-ray machine at the airport. It’s the price we pay to find or deter the bad guys.
Sure it’s an invasion of privacy but I’m willing to pay that price if it helps.
Hmm, it would be kinda funny if every pool party and social gathering I went to included ninjas hanging around in bushes and busted out of cakes slaughtering everyone, but in real life, I thought that’s what Facebook was for.
It would suck for sure but I would be glad to know the Feds are doing their job in keeping tabs on the dirtbag terrorists.
It would be better than my pervert neighbor.
I’m a well-known and extremely vocal activist, organizer, and anarchist, and also the official spokesperson for a controversial organization. I take it as a given that the State will be spying on me as a matter of course. If the State wasn’t spying on me, it would mean they didn’t feel threatened and I wouldn’t be doing a very good job. You should take it as a compliment when the State’s bully-boys come ‘round to give you the hairy eyeball, since it means they’re taking you seriously.
@SmashTheState Thanks for the laugh! I haven’t heard “hairy eyeball’ used in years…that was fun-ny!! lol!!
First, I’d be pissed. Second, I’d find a good First Amendment lawyer and have at it.
Police officers routinely face this situation. but, who is checking on the Feds?
If somehow validated, I would instinctively fight it in my own land.
I would feel like making them “pay” for their ignorance for not knowing at first glance of my data that I’m a “good guy”.
I would start to become what they suspect. I would do my best to jam up their system such that I take as many resources as possible, leading them down a blind alley – f’ing twits.
Deep anger at the decision maker’s stupidity is what I would feel, for the waste of their valuable resources (that I am in part paying for).
(Note: If CIA – external to the states – I would humbly acquiesce like an 6yo little girl looking up to her daddy.)
I would crack up laughing at the huge waste of time.
Move on, folks, nothing to see here.
It would be the same feeling that the knowledge of how many security cameras are watchingy every move would inspire. Meh…..
Those who have nothing to hide, hide nothing.
Growing up, I had an overbearing mother. I hate being watched and scrutinized, just for the sake of being watched and scrutinized.
When I was in boot camp, a lot of us had to be dissected and interrogated. In my line of work, I am being watched by the Federal Government. I can tell you it sucks. You have to constantly keep your nose clean, and your friends clean, watch what you say to everybody, and where you go on the internet, what kinds of things I post on message boards (not to mention how i word them)...
Don’t get me wrong, the juice is worth the squeeze, but I wouldn’t wish it on an unsuspecting and innocent civilian.
How do you know they don’t already use XXXXX devices and such to XXXXXXXXX listen XXXX and deactivate your XXXXX ??
At this very moment there is a guy outside sitting slumped-down in a car, and squinting at my house.
But you know, as they say…..“If you have nothing to hide….you have nothing to worry about…”
@OneBadApple But you know, as they say…..“If you have nothing to hide….you have nothing to worry about…”
Sometimes you don’t have anything to hide, you can just unknowingly entertain the wrong crowd or people and be thought to have done something wrong or actively still doing it.
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