{"id":4253,"date":"2013-06-16T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2013-06-16T07:30:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T12:30:20","slug":"the-nsa-knows-about-your-analogy-and-slippery-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4253","title":{"rendered":"The NSA knows about your analogy and slippery slope"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to challenges to the legality and morality of the NSA’s surveillance program, President Obama said we should have a healthy debate about it (video HERE<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 This occasions George Neumayr at the American Spectator<\/a> to make this comparison:<\/p>\n

He is open to a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153healthy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d debate about it. Holder and Obama are like drunk drivers who cause a pile-up and then stroll back innocently to see if they can \u00e2\u20ac\u0153help.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And when President Obama makes it clear that the content of the calls is not monitored, Neumayr sees a slope looming:<\/p>\n

In a few years, the line will move to: yes, we are listening to your calls, but we are not recording them; yes, we are forcing you to pay for abortion but we are not requiring you undergo one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The trouble is that in both the analogy and in the slippery slope, we have Neumayr assuming that the harm is already in the surveillance as it is.\u00c2\u00a0 Notice that both of the Obama replies to criticism has been to challenge that thought — the harm of surveillance would be on content.<\/p>\n

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In response to challenges to the legality and morality of the NSA’s surveillance program, President Obama said we should have a healthy debate about it (video HERE).\u00c2\u00a0 This occasions George Neumayr at the American Spectator to make this comparison: He is open to a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153healthy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d debate about it. Holder and Obama are like drunk drivers … Continue reading The NSA knows about your analogy and slippery slope<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slippery-slope","category-weak-analogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}