If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?
The danger of a surveillance state is not the obscure chance of a truly evil person abusing the system; rather, the actual threat, the real danger, is a person with good intentions who believes that their draconian actions are morally justified and prudent. It is such a leader, perhaps with the best of intentions, who can make the most heinous of mistakes with eyes wide open and belief that the ends justify the means. Those ends never justify eviscerating the Fourth Amendment.If the American people do not understand this, then they will abandon their freedoms and liberty voluntarily, without any outside foreign invasion or attack.They will fall because of apathy, just like the Romans did.