Guess Which Political Party Just Condemned the NSA’s Mass Surveillance Program

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6. In my opinion the Democratic Party should also join the effort. ...

Both parties should sit down together and forget their political differences for once in order to impose strict regulations on the collection of data to protect our democracy.

We must all realize that someday another President like Richard Nixon could be sitting in the White House or another J. Edgar Hoover type could end up running the FBI. They could misuse the metadata collected by the NSA to squash any and all opposition to their policies.

Properly controlled, metadata can possibly prevent another terrorist attack or used to combat drug cartel activities in our nation. This data is a powerful tool that can be used for good but also can be a weapon that can be misused to allow one individual or a small number of people to run our nation.

Still Congress can pass stiff controls but they will be just words on paper unless strictly enforced and those who violate the rules strongly punished.

It's my honest opinion that the freedoms we currently enjoy and our entire system of government is at stake. If we lose all privacy, we will find ourselves under the thumb of a Big Brother and have to be very careful what we say, who we call or what we post here on DU.

If that happens, the terrorists will have won as our nation will no longer be a beacon of freedom to the world.