"... insecurity predominately tended to be leveraged by a class of people that I generally liked against a class of people that I generally disliked..." This,

"... insecurity predominately tended to be leveraged by a class of people that I generally liked against a class of people that I generally disliked..." This, this, a thousand times this. We cannot look the other way because the "good guys" are benefiting. Not any more. The person that reads an article about the USA implementing some automated service to monitor foreign communication must realize that other governments are now doing the exact same thing. We no longer have the luxury of pretending that as long as the outcome is good the means do not matter.