[EliRivers]

That's nice for you, although off-topic. My problem isn't with your opinions on the need for a nation to carry out legitimate surveillance.

The problem is that you approve of oppressing people via IT because you don't like some hearing people's opinion on what IT should be used for. Oppression is not legitimate surveillance, and oppressing people because you're having a tantrum is childish.

"I feel entitled to a bit of vaguely legitimate retribution."

In favour of oppressing people via IT because you don't like hearing the opinion to the contrary - so fantastically childish that your claim to not be childish becomes some kind of satire.