re: Snowden and Putin really throwing it down on us now.

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Terrible argument. You're asserting that any steps to reduce bad things are a waste of time because "bad things always happen?"

Do you have a lock on your house and car door? Alarm system?

You take all possible steps to protect yourself. If you (and Snowden) want to fight handicapped fine, but you don't get to make the decision for me.

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Not at all what I am asserting. I am asserting that you don't go beyond legal documents and inherent rights, infringing upon the liberty of the people, to stop ALL OCCURRENCES of something that is reasonably and inevitably going to happen regardless of the steps you take. There are alternate ways to gain control of a majority of happenings before you jump in and take oppressive actions (which the NSA actions in question are absolutely oppressive in nature.)

My deadbolt and car alarm don't house any of my personal conversations or Personally Identifiable Information as addressed in the Privacy Act of 1974, another law that it is safe to assume is being violated because there is no way, with all the information they are "collecting" that they can label all of it properly.

And, yet again, no, I don't take all measures to protect myself. I take those measures that are legal and readily available for me to take. I could give two fricks less who you support in this debate, because that is exactly what this is, a debate. What we say to each other will have no bearing on the other's life. I am not forcing my opinion on anyone, I am expressing mine. A right that I am still (as of today, at least) free to exercise.