The opening of each episode starts out with this voice-over:
"You are being watched. The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror, but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people, people like you. Crimes the government considered irrelevant.......You'll never find us, but victim or perpetrator, if your number's up... we'll find you".
I loved this show. Super cool, these guys fighting off the bad guys.
Why am I bringing this up? It probably has to do with the whole someone leaked confidential information
about how our government has been accessing our phone records and internet use without our knowledge. A little bit of an invasion of privacy. It's a little bit like that TV show, right?!? So why did I have absolutely no problem with the TV show? Because they weren't corrupt. They were using this knowledge for good. Because it wasn't real. However, we all know that absolute power leads to absolute corruption. I'm afraid that the more power we give to the government, the more they'll think it's okay to control things that are currently our choices.
