"You can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy" - Obama

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President Barack Obama on Friday staunchly defended the sweeping U.S. government surveillance of Americans' phone and internet activity, calling it a "modest encroachment" on privacy that was necessary to defend the United States from attack.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9560VA20130608

And that folks should be the cue for America!

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Originally Posted by hurley842002

And that folks should be the Que for America!

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que paso?

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Originally Posted by Ridge

que paso?

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I believe what I should have put was cue*

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Originally Posted by hurley842002

And that folks should be the cue* for America!

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Obama: "You can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience," Obama said. "We're going to have to make some choices as a society. ... There are trade-offs involved."

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Fuck.....You!!! [fyou]None of us expected or asked to be 100% safe!!!

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Originally Posted by Hound

...None of us expected or asked to be 100% safe!!!

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+1. Any reasonable person knows that 100% security is an impossibility. A willingness to give up freedom in exchange for this pipe dream is folly. I believe I have seen a quote from one of the founding fathers around this or a similar sentiment.

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Originally Posted by mbl

+1. Any reasonable person knows that 100% security is an impossibility. A willingness to give up freedom in exchange for this pipe dream is folly. I believe I have seen a quote from one of the founding fathers around this or a similar sentiment.

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I think it was that guy on the $100 dollar bill.......unfortunately I have NOT seen one of those in about 4 plus years!!!!!

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin

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Originally Posted by blacklabel

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin

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This. I still find it pretty bad that I've heard this line so many times, but have heard it more in recent times (I dunno, say the last 4 1/2 years or so) than ever before. Perhaps because so many fail to heed Mr. Franklin's warning.