House votes to continue NSA spying on citizens

[rvg]

Hearsay my ass.

The FBI tried to take down the civil rights movement. The Red Scare was as much a weapon against the American poor as it was a national defense tool. Nobody "in the know" was afraid of the USSR after the later '60s when the "Missile Gap" was exposed to be not only false, but a backwards view of the strategic environment. The CIA imported crack for profit, and has always been used for illegal financial gain by whoever is in power. The list goes on, and I shudder to think about the stuff that hasn't or never will be revealed. So screw your rosy-tinted glasses, some stuff needs to change.

I think you just need to accept the fact that you're in the minority on this one. It's no big deal really: I'm in minority on great many things, you don't see me flipping out over that. By November 2014 nobody will remember/care about NSA, Snowden, Manning, Assange, whatever. Nobody will give a crap. Well maybe not nobody, but not enough for it to matter in any way whatsoever. You can't change the world, dude. Once you accept that and concentrate on things you can change, you'll become a much happier person.