Ehh...I'll bite:
When a man tells the whole country, "Hey your own gummint intercepts and stores ALL your electronic communication..." how exactly would he be BETRAYING that country...?
Can you tell me that?
If I camp outside your house in a white van intercepting all your calls, I think we both agree that's usually not so nice. Kay. But when I then TELL YOU that I'm doing that, does my telling you constitute an ADDITIONAL act of BETRAYAL..?
Wouldn't you instead say that my act of TELLING you of past intercept draws some limiting line against aspects of FUTURE intercept..?
Right after 9-11, a pretty oft-repeated line went, “Hey if we alter any aspect of our free lives cuz of 9-11, then THE TERRORISTS WIN...!”
And this line was repeated so often that it got ridiculous —it was silly.
BUT NOW?
Some whacko pixie dust has gotten sprinkled around andt there are phalanxes of mymidons screaming that reservations about intercepting and storing forever ALL e-commo in the whole country is WEIRD.
Do people understand that we’ll be regimenting the USA even more rigidly than freaking IRAN? This would be turning Peoria into **Riyadh**.
Lexington/Concord afficianados are talking about ushering in 1984 as casually as if they were deciding on one TV dinner or the other, and it’s unreal.