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Private Thoughts???????????????

Allow me to point out that the government has been monitoring the public for years. I suspect that I have had my phone tapped. declared Mr. Bell. If so then that would have been around two weeks after it was invented. DARPA knew it was being monitored. Guess what they even signed a permission slip for the government to monitor them. We all use the Internet and DARPA invented the Internet so....... They signed it you live by it.. or in other words They permitted it and you are agreeing to it just by using the Internet. If you want privacy then use a letter to the editor via USPS or Snail Mail. If you want privacy then talk to another person face to face not on the phone. The government has permission from the beginning to monitor the system. Yours is implied by using the system that is being monitored. Is this a violation of privacy? Or are we violating the government's system? Remember the only thing that was not invented by the government was the telephone itself. Cell phones, Internet, phone lines, even Cable lines all have their beginnings in a DARPA lab. DARPA crews signed a consent form. When you purchase a cell phone you are buying a piece of government equipment. All government equipment is subject to monitoring at random intervals. If your home has cable, or landline phone, you have just linked into a government system and are subject to monitoring. The government is just doing it's job since the system was invented. You are worried about it now?? Me? I'm always being watched.............who is out there?

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