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Re:Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynic... by Qwertious on Friday November 20, 2015 @11:26AM (#10602014)
"I can't understand how people can still give governments the benefit of the doubt when they've been exposed as liars repeatedly for years."

The government is not the borg. They don't trust "the government", they trust various good people in the government.

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Re:Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynic... by jessaustin on Friday November 20, 2015 @12:06PM (#10602293)
"Trusting good people" is fine for children, but anyone who has observed the system for a few years knows better. The system has been exposed to "good people" before; it knows what to do with them.
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Re:Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynic... by PythonicAlpha on Friday November 20, 2015 @12:25PM (#10602414)
Correct. My observation is: The good people that come into politics either stay small numbers in the back-row ... or they get corrupted by the system and the money and maybe end up as top politician, some even as president -- but they are no good people anymore.

That is the requirement for becoming somebody in politics.

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Re:Baseless Calls to Expand Surveillance Fit Familiar, Cynic... by gohrt on Friday November 20, 2015 @12:52PM (#10602612)
Which "good people" do they trust?

They trust the idea of a paternalistic authority. They trust the government they want, not the government they have. It's wishful thinking.

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