So, I've heard defenders of the NSA spying on all of America (ignoring their semantic argument that they aren't really reading your emails and texts, just collecting them...as if that is different, maybe more on that later) say that "if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide or worry about". Which is a classic line by despots, but also ignores some pretty basic tenets of PRIVACY and the 4th Amendment.
I found it interesting enough to comment on because some of the same people who have said this were the most outraged by the IRS looking at Political Groups (which by the way, they are supposed to do. You can't claim to be a Non-profit, tax exempt organization and be a political organization. So, if the IRS was looking at political organizations to ensure they were abiding by the law, why the outrage? If they weren't doing anything wrong or improper they had NOTHING to worry about. (Not to mention that NO ONE has claimed that these organizations were shut down, only investigated to see if they were engaged in activities that were not allowed by Tax Exempt organizations...a HUGE fact missing from the media's horrible coverage of that story)
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