New Surveillance Whistleblower: The NSA Violates the Constitution - TheAtlantic

[kelliekat44]

57. I can agree that the unwarranted invasion of citizen privacy is something that we all need to be

concerned about. But I would like to know how the government has used this information to cause the imprisonment of innocent people, denied them a benefit that they would otherwise be entitled to, and resulted in the deaths of innocent citizens.

On the other hand, I see all the evidence of police brutality, and gun violence run amuck all around the country. I see daily murder by police against unarmed black men and children killed in cross-fires and by accident playing with loaded guns in their homes. I see weapons made in the US, UK, and Israel made and sold to evil individuals and governments all around the world. This is what pains me to no end. I would gladly give up my rights to privacy ... and already have to corporations... to my government in exchange for the end to the MIC and the lax gun laws we have and enforcement of stricter gun laws and the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of those guilty of police brutality.

And most of those law enforcement actions of breaking into homes, searching for drugs and other stuff that result in many innocent citizens being killed and brutalized are a result of tips...not from NSA spying...but from neighbors or family members with grudges, felons trying to get lighter sentences, and renegade police who seize the opportunity to crack heads or shoot black or Hispanic people.