(August 6, 2013 at 1:51 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote:(August 4, 2013 at 3:23 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: If an equivalent to today's NSA scandal broke out say 40 years ago, would there have been as much hubbub about it like there is today?
What would the NSA have done, tapped into our record players?
It doesn't matter to consider what they could have done for the sake of the answering question posed. The possible reaction of the general populace back then is what I'm interested in. I'm not interested in how such a feat of spying could have happened or if it could happened. That's irrelevant to the question.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
