User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-58.7.38.236-20140205025648

The people are the government, that's what we need to ensure. Or we end up with what we've seen in history.

Letting people get themselves too disconnected from 'the rabble' creates elitist thinking. Keep the goverment shoulder to shoulder with the people. Not a distant and worrying organisation.

It is difficult for both sides of the debate though. 'If our governments are trustworthy' and out to protect us against crazy foreign leaders and their regimes. Our goverments are unable to tell the people of their own country what they're doing or what's happening or it will cause problems, problems that may not have even started if they hadn't said anything. We are a connected world now and we're all trying to figure that out. But the question for most of us seems to be "If our goverments are trustworthy" and the trust needs to be restored there. To be proud of and happy with what we're doing.

Restoring that trust is difficult. Money is a huge factor in our problems unfortunately. Most people (internationally) seem to not believe a word the U.S goverment says for it's reasons for doing things. It always looks like money/investment/control of investment is the reason. Greed is terrible, deceptive and all consuming.

It'd be different if U.S was leading a huge humanitarian effort around the world, at the cost of their own funds but for the honor of their people in helping others. And that was all they did. Now wouldn't that be different.