I’ll bet that if the FBI went through your neighborhood and community house-by-house conducting searches without warrants, you’d be the first one to scream bloody murder and call the newspaper, your elected representatives and tell everyone you know how you’d been violated.

Further, I’ll submit that if you discovered that some miscellaneous US intelligence agency opened all your mail while it was at the post office, scanned it and stored it, you’d raise holy hell.

Lastly, imagine driving home after work and instead of the legally sanctioned random highway stops, your State Patrol stopped and searched every single car? I’ll bet you’d go ballistic as would everyone else on that highway and it would be a major incident covered nationally.

Then why aren’t people outraged over something that is actually happening and is on a scale bigger than any of those three hypothetical examples? The revelation that the National Security Agency is doing exactly that and domestically (which they’ve always been mandated not to do) allegedly on all internet traffic without anyone’s approval or oversight is deeply troubling, but I’m wondering why people aren’t in the streets protesting and filled with rage.

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