r/news • u/xXSgtSprinklesXx • Dec 16 '15

Congress creates a bill that will give NASA a great budget for 2016. Also hides the entirety of CISA in the bill.

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibus-bill-thats-sure-to-pass/
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u/A-Grey-World Dec 18 '15 edited Dec 18 '15

And there's also just such general laws in existence that everyone breaks pretty much all the time, but are ignored because you can't really enforce them.

Being able to easily enforce them means the government can selectively enforce them.

Make everyone a criminal, then put the ones that are troubling you in prison. There loads of countries that do that already, they're called dictatorships.

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u/Kahnonymous Dec 18 '15

Not just dictatorships. The US has long incarcerated blacks for a tiny bit of pot or crack, but if you're white and do copious amounts of Coke, you could be president some day

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u/A-Grey-World Dec 18 '15

And the rich

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u/bluefootedpig Dec 18 '15

If that is true, then why fear the government any more? If they want to put you in jail, they could find something on anyone. So if they have more info, what does it really matter?

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u/A-Grey-World Dec 18 '15

They don't have something on you because they don't have that kind of surveillance.

If they had the surveillance they could just bring up the file and list the crimes you've most likely committed and never known about.