regarding Edward Snowden, the point is being missed I suspect...

[JDPriestly]

49. Do you agree with the NSA spying on you and me and all of us?

Do you agree that the NSA should collect all our metadata?

I don't. And Edward Snowden doesn't. And I am grateful to Edward Snowden for having revealed to the American people how our own government is spying on our electronic communications.

Who cares about Snowden? I don't care what crime he committed because the crime that the NSA and anyone who spies on my electronic communications is doing is far worse.

The NSA is stealing my personal data including, most likely, my medical records, my financial records, my communications with my family, and all kinds of other personal communications. It is absolutely horrible.

The NAZIs didn't do that. And we all condemned the USSR for doing far less in terms of surveillance. The East Germans would have loved to place all its citizens under surveillance but most likely did not have the technology.

Edward Snowden did not steal from the American people. He gave back to us the information that our government is stealing from us the American people.

What percentage of the American people do you think are terrorists? What percentage does the NSA consider to be terrorist suspects? Are you a terrorist? I am not. And if I am obviously not a terrorist, the government has no business spying on me on the excuse that they are looking for terrorists.

The government is most definitely not spying on so many Americans because the government thinks that is a way to identify terrorists. I do not for a minute think that could be the motive. If it is, Obama needs to appoint some new people to take charge of the NSA's department that looks for terrorists. Because looking at the e-mails and electronic data on millions of ordinary Americans is not going to turn up the terrorists. No way.