2013-06-07, 10:07 PM
Words Wrote:Except you're not alone and USA isn't the only country in the world. And you should care because it's your country's government that's stepping all over our rights. At least those countries that signed this:Article Twelve is an unpersuasive argument. Note the word "arbitrary." PRISM has a clearly defined purpose, "hunting spies and terrorists." In addition, correspondence is too vague. Is a Facebook chat message correspondence? Is a Facebook wall post correspondence? Does a tweet constitute correspondence? A post on a forum?
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a12
It also pisses me off how hypocrite the whole thing is, "US rights and values being "threatened" by other country? they go into war" but when the US actually fucks everyone else there's nothing anyone can do.
Also using a UN treaty can't be a serious argument since many countries sign treaties and ignore them anyways. Or some countries don't sign them and don't need them (see: Convention on the Rights of the Child, the US did not ratify, the only other countries to have not ratify are Somalia and South Sudan.)

