User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-24499495-20140204235743

Remember that everyone's innocent until proven guilty, so to treat us all like guilty citizens (spying w/o our consent, which means we're already listed as crimer-commiters) is going against one of the fundamental laws in our system. However, at the same time, the NSA has prevented MANY threats from foreigners/even inside our country; you may point to the Boston Bombing as evidence against this, but what HASN'T happened to the US in so many years just shows how competent the NSA is in protecting the nation, even if it must sacrifice, to some extent, all of our privacy.

Now, this is the question: do we want to sacrifice our protection in exchange for our privacy rights/leave us UNGUARDED against foreign threats (meaning another 9/11 is more than likely to happen) OR keep our protection but sacrifice our privacy and allow the NSA/other governmental organizations to look at our internet logs?