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> It’s saddening that we as Americans tolerate this kind of abuse from the department of “justice”, FBI, and NSA. what do you suggest we do about it? We have n
by markovbot 4y ago
> It’s saddening that we as Americans tolerate this kind of abuse from the department of “justice”, FBI, and NSA.
what do you suggest we do about it? We have no meaningful recourse against the myriad of government abuses.
- mistermann 4y agoI think if a well organized and coordinated initiative began where people talked about it in a skillful manner, and documented the outcomes of those conversations, something could come out of that. Unorganized, uncoordinated complaining on various internet forums, it seems not much comes out of this.
- lern_too_spel 4y agoWe have the courts, the threat of which forced the government to make the only illegal program in Snowden's leaks legal. We have the ballot box, which elected Obama, who shut down email metadata surveillance even before it leaked.
- krapp 4y agoAlso that Second Amendment we all have to pay for with our childrens' blood in perpetuity. That's supposed to be the only thing keeping our government from slipping into tyranny. Despite all the tyranny our government has apparently slipped into.