Should the monitoring of mosques be part of U.S. security activities?

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Of course it should.  The security services should be investigating every possible lead.

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We need to be monitoring that one DC mosque extra hard.  Lots of radicals coming out of there

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I mean, shouldn't they be monitoring everything?

Hopefully, not. At least, if the word "liberty" still means anything.

I think you meant "privacy". In any case, both are intangible inventions.

No, I mean "liberty".

In 1984 my parents got "1984" to read. For one night. In secret. My mother remembers that, as she was reading, she vividly imagined the telescreen on the wall in front of her. It may not have been tangible. But the fear, certainly, was.

A fictional novel from decades ago is not what we should base our surveillance policy around.

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I mean, shouldn't they be monitoring everything?

Hopefully, not. At least, if the word "liberty" still means anything.

I think you meant "privacy". In any case, both are intangible inventions.

No, I mean "liberty".

In 1984 my parents got "1984" to read. For one night. In secret. My mother remembers that, as she was reading, she vividly imagined the telescreen on the wall in front of her. It may not have been tangible. But the fear, certainly, was.

A fictional novel from decades ago is not what we should base our surveillance policy around.

Well, I guessed it right. The world "liberty" has no meaning to you.

At least, thanks for being honest. We all know, we are dealing with a committed enemy of the principles America has been founded on. I have seen something, and I will be saying something. On my way to be reporting to you to the FBI.

Rude.