The massive, suspicionless spying is UNPRECEDENTED, and is why many folks object to it.

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54. You are skipping the part where the government would know

your entire health history, who had what procedures, and who had abortions and who used birth control.

A list of phone calls is not monitoring communications, either. They have to have a warrant for a wiretap, for the 8 millionth time.

And they would also know, per our own demands, who has what guns.

We are fine with them "spying" on businesses - EPA, OSHA, etc.

So why they can't follow some patterns to see if they can head off terrorists is just blind. No one has claimed to be harmed. No one ever seems to want to deal with the issue when I bring it up - but it would likely be Muslims/mosques that would feel the brunt of this, and the media at least has not made any complaints. The only media coverage I've seen is that there should have been more spying on Tamerlan's mosque.