A while back, the government was diving itself into the idea of unauthorized wire-tapping, so even civilians didn’t know if they were being tapped.
Wire-tapping in my opinion has GOT to be the governments way of telling us, “Yeah, we really DON’T spend our money on anything serious over here”. You know that while they act all serious, they’re developing flame throwers and jetpacks and they sit around wire-tapping people day in and day out 24/7. It’s their official way of saying “We don’t DO anything.” I also just couldn’t imagine who would want to sit there and listen to those tapes. Hour after hour of boring conversations, and remember, a lot of these were just of civilians, so it could be any RANDOM conversation. For instance, they could have wire-tapped something as interesting as a asian lesbian sex orgy to something so mundane and gut wrenchingly painful to listen to, such as….oh I don’t know. GIRLS TALKING ABOUT MAKEUP. I mean, the possibilities of what these guys have on tape ARE ENDLESS.
If I had the equipment for wire-tapping, I sure as HELL wouldn’t use it for wire-tapping random people! I mean eventually, sure. I can think of some practical uses for civilian wire-tapping. For instance, I’d wire-tap my enemies phones. That way I could know what they’re saying they’re going to do behind my back, then I could do it to THEM before they had a chance to do it to ME. I’d also wire-tap interesting things, such as police scanners. That way if I hear of a bank robbery going down, I can rush in there with a gun, hold up the robbers, take the money and let THEM get arrested. Wire-tapping is also useful for people like parents, who could wire-tap their kids to find out if they’re having sex or doing drugs or going to a raging rainbow party (fucking google it) instead of sleeping over at Becky’s house. Granted, some may cue that as an invasion of privacy, and to those people I say FUCK YOU, THEY’RE CHILDREN.
Hell, I’d even do unauthorized wire-tapping on the government. Just to show them that what it feels like. But that’s illegal and I don’t have the equipment, so instead I’ll just go back to doing something else to show the government I’m a rebel. Like…downloading internet porn.
Yeah.
That’ll teach ‘em.
m@rk
