I think it's plain to many that they are not in fact worried about "our children" - it's a lazy argument that's easily seen through, yet appeals to outraged tab

I think it's plain to many that they are not in fact worried about "our children" - it's a lazy argument that's easily seen through, yet appeals to outraged tabloid readers. It also makes it easy to retort to those who would oppose it: "then you don't care about our children, you must be a monster!" In reality, anyone who truly cared about our children, and indeed future generations, would see the dangers of mass surveillance and strongly oppose it on those grounds.