User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-74.83.94.124-20140207131840

I woud like to see us talk about the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act basically made anything the government thinks it needs to do to fight terrorism legal (an oversimplification, of course.)

This "legal" act of congress makes mass surveillance "legal"  I think the first step is to repeal Patriot Act before we talk Mass Surveillance.

Not that I am a nay sayer of any kind. We should work against both. I just wanted to mention the Patriot Act because it is rarely discussed.