In America, the FBI can bug you without your permission. Should Americans be likewise able to bug the FBI without their permission?
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They can put you in prison indefinitely too, and if you ask why they say "we can't tell you because of national security" Shouldn't people be allowed to do the same to all the retards who voted for the PATRIOT act?
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A lot of people bug me without my permission: my boss, my co-workers, my neighbor, politicians, Paris Hilton (and her little dog, too!)
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Try it and let us know.
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But can just an ordinary Joe find the FBI and attempt to bug them? I'd assume that if you did bug them, they may know. So just for your listening pleasure, they'll discuss this big operation that you can listen to, not knowing they are raiding your house until just a few seconds before the door gets knocked down and agents come smashing through your windows.
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Yeah, the FBI wanted to get some dirt on MLK like him being a communist and all they found out is that he practiced a "sexual athleticism" with women other than his wife.
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No.
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I bug people all the time and never ask their permission. It takes all the fun out of it.
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MAD magazine bugged the FBI by publishing a test of military unsuitability which recommended that high-scorers write off for a Draft Dodger's Card. The address given was J Edgar Hoover c/o Washington, and, sure enough, a number of fun-loving readers duly wrote in. The FBI hounded Alfred E Newman for years after. placing the magazine on a sedition list.
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Cmon man FBI is just helping the people (or so I believe)
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You guys are comparing two different things here. Don't just bitch and throw pompous ideas and indignations about. There are innumerable powers and actions that apply legally to the government but not to individual citizens. It is what keeps our society from descending into anarchy. The better question, if you do not like what the gov. is allowed to do is this. How do we exercise our rights as a populace to initiate change in a government whose actions we are dissatisfied with?
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Come on, man. I want the FBI to bug everyone they possibly can. I want them to do it for my own personal security and for the security of the ones I love. And you know why? I personally got nothing to hide, that's why. Oh it's you who asked this question. Well also bug Richard Simmons because, well, I'm just curious that's all.
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it's only fair.
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If the theory that Facebook is a CIA operated data mining operation is true the FBI can probably stop that because people are signing up in their droves to provide all sorts of personal information voluntarily.
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To the extent that the FBI is bugging or wiretapping you illegitmately (harder to define, perhaps than the next) and illegally, it could certainly be argued that in acting in such a way that it undermines the theoretical basis for its existence, acts outside the Constitution and any other (supposed, putative, alleged) theoretical justifications for the U.S. government, it has practically authorized you to bug it so long as it is done for remediation purposes. Or you could just say that turnabout's fair play and one good illegal wiretapping deserves another. I would say that I wouldn't necessarily denounce the practice of bugging or wiretapping the FBI, and I'd also note that the FBI has consistently acted like a secret-police agency, investigating people's reading habits and compling dossiers on the law-abiding for the purposes of political harassment and worse. Chevalier Daniel C. Boyer
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absolutely.
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