"We need to take it back", but what is going to happen is that a couple of Facebook groups are going to be started, a few tweets written here and there complain

"We need to take it back", but what is going to happen is that a couple of Facebook groups are going to be started, a few tweets written here and there complaining about how bad it is that the naughty governments are spying on innocent citizens and then "Let's Dance" or "Friends" or "Big Bang Theory" will start and people will forget all about the NSA & co. Or the kids have to be picked up from soccer practice or there's a PTA meeting where important things like next weekend's bake-sale have to be discussed. In a few weeks the one-sided war with another CIA-engineered enemy in Syria will start up and the propaganda has swayed the populace to the camp of needing surveillance on everyone in the name of keeping the country safe from the naughty "terrorists" from Syria, who are about to invade the US by magically flying their troops over an ocean. The article, written by an intelligent person, is nothing else than naive dreaming. The author, as much as I enjoy Bruce's security writings, forgets that although he may be surrounded by a bunch of smart people with similar ideas, the US/UK/Germany/etc are filled by normal people with normal IQs and normal children and normal mortgages. Going farther, Africa and China are filled by people who live on a handful of dollars each day and care only about feeding and clothing themselves for the day. Good luck getting _them_ on the anti-surveillance bandwagon.