Hey, the USA passed the PATRIOT act with a very strong majority in the House and almost unanimously in the Senate. People just simply don't care. "If I've done

Hey, the USA passed the PATRIOT act with a very strong majority in the House and almost unanimously in the Senate. People just simply don't care. "If I've done nothing wrong, I've got nothing to hide", they say. People support this thing, because they think it helps stop "the terrorists". As John Key said in here in New Zealand, people care more about snapper fishing quotas than the GCSB (our equivalent of the NSA or GCHQ). And it's true. Government surveillance is too abstract for the average citizen to care about or notice.