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> the beauty of the American system is that we have checks and balances in place to prevent these tools from being abused in a tyrannical manner.

Are you sure about this assumption? That no brute force, human rights violation, wrong doings have been committed both inside and outside of US?

Would you please explain your reasoning more? I hope we understand that the American system has worked even without PRISM for as long as I have known and read about American history. And quite efficiently at that. So why is Dragnet needed so much now?

> Furthermore, the US Government has LOTS of tools at it's disposal that _could_ be used to implement a tyrannical state.

Let's say such a tyrannical state is inevitably implemented one day.

1. I am curious to understand how you would logically conclude and arrive (I mean agree to agree) at evaluating a _tyrannical_presence_ = true;

2. What checks and balances you indicate are going to be mechanisms at disposal with people to get rid of such a tyranny?

From what it seems none of your arguments are true at the moment.