[ajuc]

Secret services spying on each other is a sad reality, but till now all countries spied on each other spies/politicians/diplomats etc, not on regular people. When you work at embassy you know from the start thay you are under observation. It's like soldier going to a war for money - it was his choice. Spying on everybody is like killing civilians at war. It's worse.

Another analogy - putting everybody from a street in jail just in case. The fact that you can put criminals in jail and every country does this (and sometimes jail innocent people by error) doesn't make putting in jail EVERYBODY and releasing them when they prove they are innocent acceptable.

You may be not affected, but that doesn't make it any less evil. I am not affected by the lack of LGBT rights in Poland, but I still support them, cause it's stupid to revoke rights from people without reason.

Also allowing people to get so much power make it almost impossible to later revoke that power when they switch their goals or abuse it. Who can guarant you that nobody uses PRISM for personal benefit? Like people betting on stock exchange because they read that some company is going to default in private emails, and all other people on stock lose their money to these assholes? That's just the first example that came to my mind. Do you trust every person in NSA that they won't do such stuff? Or are you OK with it?

There is a point after which "to protect my country" is not good enough excuse to revoke people rights.

I have right to not trust officials from foreign country (that I have no way to vote out of office) with my secrets. They already are doing crazy stuff. Are you OK with what USA is doing to Snowden? Cause I'm not.