re: #297 ericblair

I don’t like this argument, because it’s essentially the conservative “government can’t do anything right” argument when you get down to it. Government has watchmen; they’re called “Congress”. We’re so used to having a dysfunctional Congress that doesn’t do its job that people forget we’re supposed to have a representative government. Private industry doesn’t have watchmen except for the government, either. Fix Congress and fix the problem.

Good point.

I don’t like government, I don’t trust government.
I trust corporations even less.

It’s not that government can’t do anything right, it’s that government without oversight will eventually abuse that lack of oversight. The problem is, how do you get oversight, real oversight over what is essentially considered an ongoing classified operation?