User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-184.59.51.183-20140205015436/@comment-207.172.201.13-20140206135912

The spying doesn't prevent attacks. It wastes unknown amounts of time and effort and money keeping tabs on innocent people, when that effort could be effective if it was focused only on potential criminals (which is all they're legally allowed to do anyway).

All those years of dragnet spying haven't prevented one single crime. It's only made law enforcement less efficient.

And it's supposedly in the name of preventing one certain type of crime.... which kills fewer people than lightning strikes or bathtub accidents.