I will tell you what I've been told for many years:

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59. He's got our attention, and this is not the time to let a show of loyalty overtake our

principles - probably 95% of us really hate the Total Surveillance State and want to see it cleaned out.

Speaking only for myself, if there's a way to make this system work while protecting the Fourth Amendment, I'm willing to let the NSA continue collecting. It's the profiling they do with the data that's most dangerous. The way the system now works everybody gets profiled when they make or receive a phone call, and all calls go into the server farm for storage for retrieval with a warrant if the system red flags someone according to the secret algorithm. What makes one a suspected terrorist? They're not saying. It's secret law - unAmerican. Once you're tagged, do you have the opportunity to review the record? No, it's secret.

Another thing, score high enough and they'll kill you if you're abroad with no further judicial intervention, regardless of whether you're a US Citizen. You're dead - no appeal, no day in court or opportunity to set the record straight. Lots of opportunity in that system for abuse and silencing of witnesses. Execution without trial - very unAmerican.