...because PRISM is not about protecting Americans it is about protecting politicians and rich people. Sound simplistic but Empires fall abruptly and their arc

...because PRISM is not about protecting Americans it is about protecting politicians and rich people. Sound simplistic but Empires fall abruptly and their arc downward is not like a rainbow - it's a car crash off a cliff: Harvard professor Neil Ferguson has an article about how economics drives rapid empire collapse. http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2010/07/28/sun_could_set_suddenly_on_superpower_as_debt_bites_99088.html http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2010/07/28/sun_could_... Rome fell in 30-years. The French Revolution took just three years after France became insolvent. Russia fell in about a decade. Egypt in a few short weeks. Is Greece next? Severe economic disparity is what they all have in common. USA politicians must utterly fear the people they govern and with mounting USA debt, robots & software crushing jobs, it may be unlikely that the US would collapse but economic travail are the seeds that would make it happen and PRISM is the watchdog in my opinion. If the US collapsed imagine the court trials politicians would be subjected to: War crimes, financial crimes, congressional and senatorial insider trading scams exposed, selective enforcement of laws so as to hurt specific individuals and political competitors...