re once tapped your code is no good any more jhan debra dgbt doc ca jerry han writes the point of the matter is that yes this is a serious problem but it is not the end of the world guess what we re doing something now you can t do in a communist country or nazi germany or john edgar hoover s usa we re complaining about it or rather you re complaining about it and nobody is shooting at us yet guess what people you live in one of the few countries in the world where a person can complain without getting shot at yet people are always complaining that somebody did this wrong or somebody did that wrong or whatever sit down and figure out two things what have they done right how much worse can it get and you ll find that you and i are pretty damn lucky so far so let s talk about it get some action going decide what s going on but let s not overreact what harm is there in overreacting this may be the largest single threat to civil liberties yet in my lifetime the us has done some pretty heinous things in the past and we haven t yet recovered from all of them there certainly seems to be a historical trend towards less liberty with occasional perturbations time to break out the quotes from american political radicals lyle transarc grant street the gulf tower pittsburgh there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation james madison
