What is wrong with increased surveillance?

We live in a a country and a world where 13 year old kids make explosives in their backyards for fun and 18 year olds can make complex codes on the internet and hack into sensitive government material when they are bored. There are people around the world who want to kill all of us, not just us Americans, but Britons, Germans, the French, anyone in the West. Repeatedly, the CIA and British MI6 have been stopped from locking away these mass-murderers by far-left "human-rights" lawyers and their loony allies who believe in totalitarian conspiracies about surveillance, and the bad guys get away. In 2007, there was a complex plot that would have involved al-Qaeda affiliates based out of Great Britain to use biological weapons bought from old Soviet stockpiles to unleash an unprecedented global epidemic. Luckily, the MI6 caught wind of it soon enough and the proper measures were taken. The measures taken were all foreign students studying chemistry and biology at British universities had background checks performed. In London, the average person is photographed at least 300 times a day. And it was a defector who was once an extremely high-placed general in the Iranian military who confirmed for his new employers, the MI6, that the Iranian government is indeed working to obtain a nuclear weapon.

Many Americans and people around the world do not realize exactly how scary the world is- they say they know, but they don’t. They bring up 200 year old arguments about freedom and surveillance, like Benjamin Franklin’s, but we are actually not giving up much freedom at all. If the CIA and the MI6 haven’t done what they have to combat terrorism, we would be living without any freedom right now or be dead. They have to constantly outsmart the intelligence forces of our enemies, namely, the Iranians and the Syrians, who have their own agents trying to figure out our weaknesses.
Oh and I forgot to mention how al-Qaeda now has their own version of the CIA. That must make everyone feel safer.
Americans had less freedoms during World Wars I and II than we do now. You couldn’t even criticize the president then without getting in trouble.

In the late 1800s a teen aged girl Lizzy Borden supposedly took an axe to her whole family. Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of London. In the West gun fights killed thousands. Hangings were considered family entertainment. Families often took a picnic lunch out to watch an execution.

In the early dark ages towns were not conquered they were exterminated. Every man woman and child sometimes executed.

Probably THE most watched people in the world were the inmates of top security penitentiaries. Despite the 24 hour on camera and by human eye surveillance. Despite constant cell searches, monitoring of mail and phone conversations. Despite all of this murders still happen. The illegal drug trade thrives. Inmates often run crime organizations from within the walls of top security prisons right under the noses of those running the prisons.

No matter how much you watch, people are ingenious and will find a way.

More importantly than the fact you can’t stop bad behavior with even worse behavior is the principle of the matter. In a free society you consciously choose to trust your fellow citizen. In return they trust you to uphold your rights and duties as a citizen. That is the way a free society functions. Historically every time a people has given up freedom for security not only did they deserve neither they got neither. The security measures just became abused to empower one group over another and actually accelerated the crimes.

Last think about it. If a kid can hack into a bank why not the security systems? Why not track where their gf is 24/7 by using all the cameras we must cross today? Why not track what she says by hacking into the database of conversations people keep? It’d be a stalker’s paradise. The more we are watched the uglier society becomes simple as that.
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