"destroying themselves" is certainly a characterization, and I don't mean to imply that I think cities will go away. What I'm saying is that for what purpose wo

"destroying themselves" is certainly a characterization, and I don't mean to imply that I think cities will go away. What I'm saying is that for what purpose would the government be secretly spying on people if not to do something with that information - and rioting, looting, and widespread violence seem like the premier occasion for deploying some type of action based on that intelligence. If we don't see it happening in response to what's happening in cities now, what really is the point? What else would it be used for? I'm not saying it's right, I just don't understand the effort and the expense if it's ostensibly justified by the potential for occasions like this, which are now here, and now being effectively ignored by those doing the intelligence gathering.