You&#x27;re saying, &quot;We should not trust the government because they did things that I didn&#x27;t agree with in the past&quot;. This seems like an unfair standard to hold any person or group of people to. I would be unhappy if people said &quot;I think that karmacondon has made mistakes in the past, so he shouldn&#x27;t be trusted to do his job ever again.&quot;<p>I understand what you&#x27;re saying, and I think I get where you&#x27;re coming from. But like the GGP post, you&#x27;re begging the question and assuming that your beliefs are so correct that anyone who disagrees with them must be insincere.<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s anything inherently wrong with the government monitoring potentially criminal groups or building databases. That&#x27;s what we pay them to do. If they get out of hand then we, the people, will deal with it.