RMRoger McCourt
The simple truth is, the people want to be protected, they just don't want to know how.
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
There are consequences to not acting. Like Simmons and Joss.
Since we started this, things have changed. We’ve changed. But the mission, our purpose, has always been constant: to save lives. If that’s changed somehow, if we’re in a place now where the Machine is asking us to commit murder? That’s a place I can’t go. I’m afraid this is where I get off.
You're in a situation you can't control that's larger than you can imagine. Sit tight and we'll keep you alive.
There's one more thing. I'd like you to avoid violence if at all possible. But, if they harm Grace, in any way, kill them all.
I want to talk about the future. And who more qualified for that conversation than the father of artificial intelligence?
I built the machine to save lives. But how could I be certain that it wouldn't one day determine that all of humanity was irrelevant?
And while the public shouts from the rooftops about their civil liberties, they do so under the protective bubble of the very program of which they are railing against, the one that saves them from terrorist attack every single day.
How often alliances shift in times of war. Not that those alliances ever truly exist. They're an illusion, like seeing a sunset in a sky of flames.
Court is now in session.
Senator, you've denied any knowledge of Northern Lights, yet your name appears in these documents some 37 times. Now, how do you explain that?
Maybe you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet.
Where were you when Flight 77 hit the Pentagon? Because I was inside it. I carried out the wounded, I covered up bodies, and I have spent every day since putting bullets in the people responsible and in anyone else who even thinks they can do that to our country again. You wanna shoot me because I had to tap a few phone calls, read a few emails? Then you go right ahead. But you better turn that gun on yourself next, Mr. Collier, because you have broken just as many laws and the only difference is I didn’t wrap myself up in the American flag and try to convince people I was a hero.
You expect us to believe you gave one thought About people's rights as you were building The government a weapon of mass surveillance?
Not a weapon.
What else would you call it?
I would call it the best I could do.
What a piece of work is your Machine, Harold. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god.
Nothing wrong with a dictatorship, so long as you're the dictator.
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