Amnesty International: USA must not hunt down or prosecute whistleblower Edward Snowden

[JDPriestly]

53. But the situation in that case was not at all similar to what is being done now.

I don't think that case applies to this massive surveillance which collects the metadata on the correspondence and calls of journalists, judges, political parties and candidates and all of the rest of us who express our opinions freely. This is a serious incursion on our First Amendment rights. It chills all of the rights guaranteed in the First Amendment.

I hate to go ad hominem, but I am shocked that anyone would even try to defend this program. What kinds of kooks thought this up? It is inspired by the worst conduct of the Soviet Union's KGB and the NAZI intelligence services. It is far worse even that the STASI.

This program has to go.

Thurgood Marshall was the only one of the justices with the vision to see where the Smith v. Maryland decision would land us. Thank God for Thurgood Marshall.

What in the world does the NSA think it is defending? A bunch of buildings? Our natural resources? No. They are supposed to be defending us. And if they are violating our constitutional AND INNATE HUMAN rights in order to do it, they should go somewhere else. Maybe China would hire them. They seem to have same mentality as the Chinese. They would fit in better there.

And if the Chinese are stealing our ideas and spying on our communications, let's just stop making our products there. Let's just boycott their imports. They need a lesson in human rights. It appears that our government does too.