User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-184.59.51.183-20140205015436/@comment-10663649-20140205020201

It's not so much about hiding anything. It's about our right to not be spied on by our own government without due process.

Put it this way, when U.S. Attorny General Eric Holder was asked if the information that was being collected could be used by the executive branch against their political rivals he answered with "that is not something that I believe should be discussed in public".