Not trusting the government because they have a perpetually anti-freedom mindset is completely fair. Are we supposed to take their every action as piecemeal and then be constantly surprised when they do the wrong thing?<p>They don&#x27;t just monitor criminals-- that&#x27;s why the anti-surveillance folks are anti surveillance! They monitor everyone, and create criminals as needed, and nobody can question them for fear of ending up on the chopping block.<p>They are currently very far out of hand, and &quot;we the people&quot; are doing somewhere between jack and shit because of how little the people understand the problem.