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| So, the NSA is watching your every move. | |
| Who cares, right? | |
| You're not doing anything wrong. | |
| Well, as NSA whistleblower William Binney pointed out, you don't get to decide what's wrong. | |
| The central government does. | |
| In fact, you could be breaking a law right now that you're not even aware of. | |
| Take a look at some of these laws that, while they may be outdated and unenforced, most of them are still on the books. | |
| It's against the law to take a bite out of someone else's hamburger in Oklahoma. | |
| Sporting a goatee in Boston? | |
| Well, you better have a permit for that, you whiskery wrongdoer! | |
| In Iowa and Eureka, Nevada, it's illegal for a man with a mustache to, under any circumstances, kiss a woman in public. | |
| Sorry ladies and hipsters. | |
| A Chicago municipal code from 1911 banned people who were diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed to the point of being an unsightly or disgusting object from going out in public. | |
| Did you know that it is illegal to fart in public in Florida after 6 p.m.? | |
| Yes, I've heard about that. | |
| They're very serious about their clean air there. | |
| Oh really? | |
| In Indiana, a bill was proposed to make law that the value of pi is three. | |
| Thankfully, a mathematics professor was present in the legislature that day, and the bill didn't pass. | |
| In New Hampshire, you may not tap your feet, nod your head, or in any way keep time with the music played in a tavern, restaurant, or cafe. | |
| Have you ever heard of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act? | |
| Well, you've probably violated it. | |
| Have you ever signed on to an unsecure Wi-Fi network? | |
| What does unsecure mean? | |
| Just like free? | |
| You're sitting in your apartment and someone doesn't have their thing locked down so you're like, oh I'm gonna go on the internet. | |
| Yes I have. | |
| Well that is a federal offense. | |
| Have you ever used a fake name when signing up for an internet account? | |
| Yeah, of course. | |
| Yeah, that's breaking the law too. | |
| Also a felony. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| Okay, okay. | |
| So you did not mean to commit a federal crime of hacking when you logged on as Seymour Buns. | |
| But it just goes to show how easy it is to pass a law simply to control behavior that some people find offensive. | |
| In fact, you don't even have to break the law in order to get arrested for doing something others find disagreeable. | |
| Jeff Olson is facing a 13-year jail sentence for writing anti-bank messages in water-soluble chalk on the sidewalk. | |
| And a 14-year-old would never be facing a year of jail time just for refusing to change his shirt if Obama hadn't waged an all-out war against the Second Amendment. | |
| And don't even think about bong waterboarding, snarky caricatures of political pundits, or your entire YouTube account will be wiped out. | |
| What you're doing today could seem harmless, but a year from now it could be damaging just based on the whims of those in power. | |
| And the police already abuse the immense power that they have. | |
| So if the NSA is recording every move that you make, and somewhere along the line technically everyone is going to break the law, punishment becomes purely selective. | |
| Basically, those in power will have whatever they need to punish whoever they like, whenever they choose. | |
| So the question shouldn't be, I'm not doing anything wrong, so why should I care if I'm being spied on? | |
| The question is, if I am not doing anything wrong, then why the hell do you think you have the right to spy on me? |
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