Lavabit founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It'

[JDPriestly]

85. And so it begins. The government knows where Snowden is. What more do they need to know?

Do they also want to persecute his family and friends because he could not longer bear the burden of knowing the government was exceeding reasonable bounds with its surveillance program?

This is the sign of a government way in over its head, scared to death of not being able to protect the people. But what are they afraid of? They can listen into the conference calls of the leadership of Al Qaeda, so it certainly is not Al Qaeda. What scares them so much about the American people that they need to track and read our e-mails and phone calls, Google searches and other internet activity and snoop on some of the content of what we say and do?

What are they hiding that we don't know and that they don't want us to know?

What kind of mayhem do they think that Americans are plotting behind their backs (in open view on the internet and in phone calls)? It makes utterly no sense.

No sense whatsoever. If they want to find criminals, they should follow ex-cons, not indiscriminately follow and investigate everyone. It is an incredible, absurd waste of money.

Of course, it keeps a lot of people employed. I guess that is the upside.

Why have an internet if you have to keep it under surveillance all the time?

Maybe keeping the internet under surveillance is costing our government more than the internet is worth.