[dgunn]

Things like this don't make great revolutions. People won't care enough. People need to see a real threat to their lives before you can get an uprising. They have to be hungry or homeless or in some kind of actual pain.

Being spied on sucks. I don't want it to happen to me or you. But in the end, the government is only infringing on what it, itself, established as our rights. It keeps the economy moving along just enough to keep food on our tables and roofs over our heads and thus keeps us, in large, satisfied enough to stay home and not fight them.

There are other countries which don't even have a false promise of privacy. Some whose citizens don't eat daily and whose lives are constantly threatened. These are the countries which have unrest. They fight their governments and ultimately cause real change. We have had those situations here in the past. Privacy wasn't what caused it.

You can "#restorethefourth" if you want but it will be like most first world protests. You'll wrap up around 7, go to your comfy homes, eat dinner and sleep feeling completely secure and you'll dare not do anything to screw that up.