User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-107.199.150.102-20140205152022/@comment-107.199.150.102-20140205153844

Another thing to the 'law-abiding so I don't have to worry, look all you want" folks... you're also making another great assumption -- that huge assumption being that 'the system' works effectively and fairly --

a system run by human beings in beaurcracies... a wealth of oppurtunities for failure

You won't hear about it on the news, but sometimes innocent people actually do get mis-identified and can find themselves in a world of trouble.

Also please take a moment and really think about pre-Nazi Germany and just how all that went down. The Germans were not stlupid people and that didn't happen overnight. Learn about it. Learn just how a thing like that happened to a democratic society (which Germany was originally)

Now, imagine this same pre-WWII Germany -- but with this level of technology.

Please don't  assume that all this watching is (and always wil be) for our 'benefit'