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Please tell me this is Swiftian irony and you are playing Devil's Advocate for the sake of conversation.

I wouldn't call it Swiftian irony, but I was trying to expose how the USG has to spy on Americans if it wants to end or prevent terrorism through surveillance.

To play with the idea of Swiftian irony, destroying the privacy of non-Americans to protect America from threats real or presumed may work... in the same way selling the children of the poor for meat would solve certain problems.

   " if it wants to end or prevent terrorism through 
   surveillance."

TBH I just want them to end or prevent terrorism through good old fashioned detective work and only rely on surveillance into private spaces when they have a warrant issued by a court.

A real, non-secret court, with the warrant targeting individual people, with probable cause, without the ability to start surveillance days ahead of getting approval.

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