[ross-life]

A. The Snowden revelations show the US has spent years being dishonest about their programs. You'd be silly at this point if you think there is not a huge database of American communications too.

B. "Filtered". Do you really believe that? Considering it's coming from the same government that also uses the words "enhanced interrogation"?

C. The US seems to consider the rest of the world people with no rights at all. People understand spying on other countries, not spying on every other single person in the world with a phone and/or an internet connection.

D. Your reasoning is faulty:

> If government is monitoring your communications, then there's a pretty dammed good reason, as determined by a judge.

Just because an "authority" says/does something does not mean it is right. It should be expected to explain its reasoning, openly and transparently. Then I can trust it. The current programs do not do that and have no intention of doing that.

E. Random US government employees are literally reading your communications.