> I don't like how invasive our security agencies are but if they end up preventing major crimes or terrorist attacks I can't say what they do is wrong. That i

> I don't like how invasive our security agencies are but if they end up preventing major crimes or terrorist attacks I can't say what they do is wrong. That invasiveness IS a major crime in itself, of mindboggling proportions even. Besides, the operative word here is "if". > At the end of the day, I want the people defending me to be more powerful than the people attacking me, but I don't want my defenders to use their same tools against me. Not gonna happen. > "If the totalitarian conqueror conducts himself everywhere as though he were at home, by the same token he must treat his own population as though he were a foreign conqueror." -- Hannah Arendt