If the government of your country was able to read your thoughts, would tin foil paper hat really help ???
553166
Well first of all no governments can read peoples' thoughts so it's not that big a worry in the real world.\n\nBut if they could do so by electromagnetic radiation (or cause you to think other things) then the only way to protect yourself would be to go into a faraday cage.  If your entire body were covered in tin (more likely aluminium if you use the 'tin foil' that you buy in shops) then you would be in one (a wire mesh will often work fine too due to the radiation 'seeing' a wire mesh with spacing less than half a wavelength as solid).\n\nBut if you just cover your head then you won't actually stop the EM radiation very well (and might end up focusing it towards your brain).
876028
I have assumed from the time I was a teenager that the government already monitors everything and that certain words or phrases are flagged, analyzed and stored.\n So if they are working together it would not surprise me the least.
1032021
Seems a little iffy to me.  I'll have to hear some more actual facts first.  (Which is probably a pipe dream since, according to our present government, just about everything is a state secret related to "national security").
26605
Another way for this country to mind other country's business.
713550
the official explaination can defy any body... as long as their explaination fits the picture they want to give.  it is a gamble as to how many people will believe the explaination... but if you cover up properly, then it would always be open to discussion.\nas it happens, it seems the majority of people, no matter what evidence you put in front of them, can't accept that the govt. they voted for lied.  it goes against everything that they concieve as reality and to change a persons reality once it is fixed is almost impossible.
198918
It works.  As long as we, the voters, respond positively to all the trash, politicians will continue to use it.  \n\nThe Internet provides a means to examine some of the claims made, but so too do local and regional news sources. \n\nIf citizens start to responsibly inform themselves most of it can end. You know Abe Lincoln's line  "You may fool all of the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."  Do your homework - don't be the fooled.
903497
It depends on who is staring.  Some people just do that and it doesn't mean anything.  Without having a mind reading device it's impossible to know.
375956
Yes, Experts have already agreed that the best new method a government can use to monitor its people is an electronic funds transfer system. The system I invented is a barcode is tatooed on every citizens hand with their account number encoded on it. This would serve the same function as the number on a credit card magnetic strip. The cashier scans the customers barcode after she scans the merchandise. If this replaced cash a guy who swam the Rio Grande and has no account, could'nt buy things so he could'nt live here. This would'nt stop illegal immigration but it would control it. Unfortunately this would result in a big famine in Mexico, which could be the famine in the book of revelations. BTW The real bible sez the love of money is the root of all evil
1001947
The government, especially all spy and security agencies, is going to do what it wants when it wants.  I think it is just a  fluke that we know they have been listening in on us this time.\n\nAs for me, I don't plan on doing anything to harm the government so I don't really care.  We are already being watched over by Big Brother, why should listening in matter?
374829
I could happen. Homeland Security is probably using an automated monitor program to assess high risk comments that suggest further observation is required. Does that sound paranoid? If you look closely at some of the things the US gov is doing right now you would be shocked. Thanks to the Internet and our voluntary use of it, we have less privacy than at any time in our past. Big brother is alive and well.\n\nOh, and not to step on too many toes but free speech really isn't free any more. That dream is merely a fantasy. 911 gave the feds a chance to enact an unheard of degree of control. Now the government is passing some of the most anti-humanitarian legislation imagineable.
316916
To quote a popular political pundit's recent column:\n\nTry showing up in any other country on the planet, illiterate and penniless, and announcing: "I've seen pictures of your country and it looks great. I think I'd like to live here! Oh, and by the way, would you mind changing all your government and business phone messages, street signs and ballots into my native language? Thanks!"
793937
Your question really has no answer, if it did, everyone would be implementing those ideas all around the world.  You can't change others or countries, only yourself.  Study hard, work hard, take risks and keep an open mind to new views and ways of doing things...that's all anyone can do.
362188
I believe that it is certainly possible, the internet is a big part of what may make it happen because it is getting harder and harder for oppressive govenments to control information (such as China) eventually it will be impossible and people in these govenments will demand to chose how they are governed.
1058305
My answer:  Probably then they would come up with a way to tax exploding heads.\n\nJumpingrightin:  If you're going to accuse someone of asking an "uninformed question" you might want to try spell check or at the very least grammar check.
233495
I am with you all the way. One of my favorite jokes is "how can you tell if a politician is lying...Watch his lips move" The government can pretty much do as they want but let a normal American citizen try some of that stuff and watch what happens. We have no privacy and Democracy is a joke anymore...
314720
our government might be usefull after all
602910
I think the Feds are out there to get you. Make sure you wear your tin foil hat. C ya.