User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/The Day We Fight Back: A Digital Protest/@comment-10507735-20140211173103/@comment-10507735-20140211202838

OK I'm glad that's been clarified. I will be having another look at the proposed legislation but am a diehard skeptic in this regard. The FISA 'system' was supposed to be a safeguard and look what happened.

Major root and branch malpractice. Transgressors prosecuted - ZERO. Huffing, puffing and other disinformative bluster - considerable and concerted. My fear is that any legislation will be a fig leaf and the NSA will just carry on doing what it does with impunity. Hopefully defunding clauses can be included here more successfully because that's what it is going to take. Even that is unlikely to succeed with the number of corporate beneficiaries beholden to or embedded with the NSA.

As one of the 7 billion non-Amerikans completely unaffected by whatever happens Administratively or Congressionally, the best outcome from our POV is defunding pure and simple. While you're at it, sending the DHS and TSA into the dusbin of history along with the FBI (which has deemed that its pupose is to preserve the State rather than fighting crime) would also be positive for 'freedom'.

Fifty years ago would have been a good time to start this.

Twenty years ago you might still have stood a chance.

Today? It seems only a second financial crisis might curtail these threats. Smile. We could get lucky, but when Big Gov has to choose between social security and state security, guess what happens. Good luck.