User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-82.168.125.187-20140205005613

Fear is what ordered them to do so. And indeed, the same fear that turned the Star Wars baddies into ugly monsters turns the American government and the NSA into public enemy number 1. They have themselves become what they fear most: a terrorist organisation that holds the world in an icy grip.

The greatest song that mocks America today is that song called America the brave. Everybody knows that it should be called America the scared. And of course that line about the land of the free should read the land under constant surveillance.

If you don't like Star Wars you can also watch Das Leben der Anderen. It's a movie about a DDR secret agent who does just what the NSA does: constantly monitoring somebody and writing down everything he does. In the beginning he does just that. But as the movie proceeds he more and more explains everything he sees and hears as suspicious behaviour.

The NSA does exactly the same, only more detailed and on a much larger scale than the Stasi could ever do. So it is no surprise that by now they themselves actually really think they are monitoring a bunch of thought criminals. Let this go on another 2 years and they will nuke the whole world outside the US, just to prevent terrorists from attacking.