Reading the kid's mail

 

 

 

"Trust is not given - it is earned..."

For those of us who have had kids, we know that reading their mail or listening in on their phone calls is be the worst violation of trust a parent could do to them. I dare say if we had done that to either of our daughters, we would not have the relationship we have today. Lets face it - nobody would like to have somebody, family or otherwise, go through their snail mail, e-mail or listen in on phone or Skype calls.

Now riddle me this. Recently, in a Washington Post/Pew Research poll, 56% of people consider the NSA accessing telephone records as “acceptable”, while only 41 % of people consider it “unacceptable.” What? And many of the people who responded were Millennials. These were the same people who would have staged a house mutiny if Mom and/or Dad had read one sentence in a personal e-mail.

If what is said about the NSA is true, and everyday it seems that more is being disclosed, the metadata collected will consist of just about everything. Not just every e-mail sent or received, but every phone call made and received, every credit or debit purchase made, every everything on everybody. It will be more intrusive than a colonoscopy, only this time the exam will be on your entire life.

With most of the things going on right now that people should be concerned or upset about, I am amazed how little many people care. Because the news cycle continues to overwhelm us with events, many people lose their capacity to care. Both the IRS and NSA issues are huge, and potentially could affect everyone. However, half the people polled either don't know about them or don't care. The interest rate goes down even further with the Rosen (Fox News) or AP stories. And Benghazi and Fast and Furious?  Ancient history.

People of faith often say the cruelest thing that Satan ever did to mankind was convince so many he did not exist. To some extent, something similar can be said for abuse and overreach of government. If we believe abuse does not exist, or it won't affect us, we are no better than frogs in water not knowing it is starting to boil.