I am Just Sayin’ and if you really didn’t know, I am sorry for the loss of innocence I’m causing.
It’s been all over the news, now, for almost a week. But it really isn’t news.
Don’t start to think I am sitting at my window with binoculars ready and tin foil on my head. I do have the binoculars but most, maybe all foil is made of aluminium.
Does anyone remember when the towers came down? The Weapons of Mass Destruction? The Axis of Evil? The Patriot Act?
Before that we were being recorded and watched. Or watched and recorded. The two are really the same. Remember WaterGate? 
The camera surveillance used to be limited mostly to banks. Then came the little warning signs in drug stores and other places warning about the use of video surveillance and the promised prosecution of shoplifters.
Suddenly those cameras were showing up in cafes and restaurants but they were pointing at the clerk. Trust issues, anyone? 
These popped up everywhere. A friend who ran a laundry mat in the early-mid 1990s was the owner of a camera that witnessed a car accident on the street out front.
Cell phones, I think were next. I once began to make a call on my cell and a whole gossipy conversation between two women was happening. I made a noise. They didn’t stop. I said hello. Excuse me. Can you hear me? I finally disconnected by pulling the phone’s battery. If I can do that by accident why can’t the government and hoards of bad guys do this on purpose? 
When my darling husband calls on his lunch break to ask me what I am wearing or mentions a wish for a tryst of some kind I always announce we are married to the phone, then warn him that anyone can hear this call.
Computers? Gosh, what a hot bed of information and you don’t even have to be covert to find it. I know where my daughter’s father is and the name of the woman he is currently with. I know where at least one of his daughters live and the names of her children and I have never met them. 
Parents and bosses know about the keystroke applications. They also know they can track a cell phone’s location with gps. Teens and cheaters, stash that phone a few miles away before doing the bad.
My tin foil point is that if I can do these things with a minimum of work why wouldn’t the government be doing the same?
By the way, I have information on pipe bombs, homes for un-wed mothers, a group who answers questions on what poison to use or the best way to dispose of a body. I visit all kinds of sites. If I were a phone person I’d be talking on my cell to people about these topics. (I’m a Writer)
Do you know how many times a camera picks you up on the way to the grocery store?
Maybe I should supply step by step instructions for assembling an aluminum foil hat.
Thanks for letting me go on about this. Again, I am sorry if you were in the dark on this topic. Don’t touch anything sharp.
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4 responses to “I am Just Sayin’”
I figure ‘they’ can watch, I’m not ever likely to be doing anything wrong unless you count occasionally scratching an itch. Power to them!
The most laughable (irony) thing about this whole thing is that the PTB’s (Powers That Be) throw their delicate hands up in the air and say, a – ‘we didn’t know!’, and/or, ‘We’re only doing it to catch the ‘bad guys. Our motives are pure’!
Some of the people I mentioned above don’t even have an online personality of any kind.
Ancestry dot com gives a lot of information. There are tons of public records available online and off.
I was looking for my property tax balance and was able to see everyone’s info on my particular country block.
It isn’t all that hard to track someone down even if you don’t mean to.
A long time ago I read that on a regular outing you are picked up by seven cameras. Probably 70 now.
At this very moment I can watch people live in Yellowstone Park at Old Faithful and Mamath (sp).
Sally
Honestly, unless you live in the boonies somewhere, you are constantly on camera. And find-able. Quite frankly, since I’m not involved in illegal acts, nor am I calling known terrorists, I’m not going to get my undies in a bunch over this. There are so many other things I can develop an ulcer over, not the least of which is being underemployed and working minimum wage jobs at an age that I expected to be working in a satisfying job earning the most money I’ll ever make. Or having my kids have to borrow money at an unconscionably high interest rate just to finish their college degrees, which will allow them to graduate into an economy that will offer them minimum wage jobs…
Most people give out a hell of a lot more information about themselves than I do on social sites, twitter, pinterest, etc. I don’t even put my town on FB. Trust issues are only in the news because of a security leak. Yawn.