They simply have better things to do than harass targets that they discover are innocent. They have too much to do and bigger fish to fry. There's no incentive.
Karen, I think you are missing a key point. It's not the random snooping... it's the snooping on people who (for whatever reason, personal or political as well as professional) the snoopers do not like or are disposed not to like.
Give secret bodies the authority to do this and history shows they WILL abuse this, the kind of people most likely to abuse it gravitate to this arena like politicians to power or flies to sh*t.
Give them the further ability to arrest people without granting them legal recourse, with no accountability, no comeback, and not even any way for them to discover why or on whose say-so they were imprisoned and detained... and they will. They'll do it to teach these disruptors a lesson, to show the peaceniks who's boss, because they don't like your style or your tone or your criticism of their politics on a bulletin board... or your religion (or lack of), or your associates... or just because they're sad inadequates with power, and they can. They always have. Whenever there's been a regime allowing this, as well as its enemies there's been a lot of personal score-settling. And, of course, there's all these people aiding the enemy by saying that this power is wrong. Well, they need to go.
Maybe after 6-8 weeks detention as a "material witness" you'll be released without apology or explanation. Maybe they won't bother.
Plausible? Probable? Possible? Can you even say confidently that it is not happening in the US, now? |
