how to write letter about an unwelcomed guest
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The unwelcome guest
Jun 29, 2013
All this hoopla over the government's spy, er, I mean, surveillance programs has left me in a kind of quandary. I understand the government's desire to keep us safe from anything like another 9/11. On the other hand, I'm holding a phone and I expect a little privacy when I chat with my dentist's office about scheduling a root canal.
I see these spy programs much like having a guest who shows up to my dinner party uninvited. This "intruder" doesn't say much, and pretty much keeps to himself. But it is a little disturbing when he keeps taking pictures of my furniture, my guests, the bedrooms, even the dinner table. And from time to time, he enters something into his iPad.
Even after the guests leave, he still hangs around somewhere out in the bushes. He's not really doing anything, so I cannot call the police. But I worry it will be too late if he does try something untoward.
I understand that all of our transactions these days are made via communications technology. And I realize that Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and others are constantly mining the information we put out there in cyberspace to try and sell us stuff. I'm OK with that. But the government doesn't offer me free samples of Viagra, or advise me of the millions of dollars I won in the Zimbabwe lottery.
Maybe they ought to try that. Then they might be a little more tolerable as an uninvited guest.
Jun 29, 2013
All this hoopla over the government's spy, er, I mean, surveillance programs has left me in a kind of quandary. I understand the government's desire to keep us safe from anything like another 9/11. On the other hand, I'm holding a phone and I expect a little privacy when I chat with my dentist's office about scheduling a root canal.
I see these spy programs much like having a guest who shows up to my dinner party uninvited. This "intruder" doesn't say much, and pretty much keeps to himself. But it is a little disturbing when he keeps taking pictures of my furniture, my guests, the bedrooms, even the dinner table. And from time to time, he enters something into his iPad.
Even after the guests leave, he still hangs around somewhere out in the bushes. He's not really doing anything, so I cannot call the police. But I worry it will be too late if he does try something untoward.
I understand that all of our transactions these days are made via communications technology. And I realize that Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and others are constantly mining the information we put out there in cyberspace to try and sell us stuff. I'm OK with that. But the government doesn't offer me free samples of Viagra, or advise me of the millions of dollars I won in the Zimbabwe lottery.
Maybe they ought to try that. Then they might be a little more tolerable as an uninvited guest.
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