Snowden exposed a vast amount of criminal activity within our government, and the governments response is &quot;lets prosecute snowden!&quot; ... no reforms, no groundswell for reform.<p>The spying isn&#x27;t even a topic in the upcoming election.<p>Since 2001, we have only seen the government go the opposite way- gathering more power, from the creation of the TSA to NDAA they are clearly not beholden to the people. (I don&#x27;t believe most people support this, if accurately educated about the scientific and legal basis of these- thousands of TSA agents have been arrested for crimes that victimize travelers, they fail tests to see if they will catch bombs, and no terrorists have been found...and this isn&#x27;t just Bush&#x27;s doing - NDAA and the porno scanners happened under Obama, and during the whole period we haven&#x27;t been seeing congressmen of either party attempt to stop it (though Rand Paul did a filibuster at one point.))<p>The fundamental problem is that the US government- at all levels, and across parties- is not answerable to the people or for their crimes.<p>This is why I&#x27;m an anarchist- I believe no government can be kept accountable.