Don't know why the downvote for OP. A variant on the same joke: I had a friend who used to occasionally say "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're

Don't know why the downvote for OP. A variant on the same joke: I had a friend who used to occasionally say "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!" which always made me laugh. I laugh still but less, because our surveillance society has now reduced the vague "they" to government/police agencies who seem relentlessy devoted to shredding any concept of privacy that ever existed in Western thought. And the OP is right: the revelation of so much previously-unrevealed surveillance by government and law-enforcement can only, to someone who is from suspicious to paranoid, increase their suspicions or in some cases _prove_ (to them) their fears. When I was a child I feared because my parents told me that "God is watching you!"; today I fear because God knows who's watching me! At least, in the case of "God", I understood his intentions.