[swombat]

Welcome to America, where we read your private mail, track all your movements online, shoot your dogs, abuse you at the borders, put antibiotics in your food, bankrupt you when you get sick, throw you in jail with hardened criminals if you smoke a spliff, and drone-execute you with no warrant if the president doesn't like you. Would you like fries with that?

[znowi]

I suspect soon enough (unless it's already a trend) Americans may be afraid to even speak of this in public as with mass surveillance you never know how and when your unfavorable words of the regime may affect you.

[atlanticus]

I suspect you don't know any Americans.

[Helianthus]

It is one of the bright spots of this: Americans are stubbornly stupid enough to be completely willing to damn the consequences.

(That is, in some respect, how we got into the social media surveillance state: brazen willingness to damn the consequences of oversharing, for quite superficial reasons.)

[rbanffy]

I would like to criticize your comment, but I can't. It's not completely fair, but it's clear to me the US has somehow lost its way. It's a shame.

[wmoxam]

Home of the brave indeed

[alive-or-not]

Land of the banksters, home of the sheeple ...

[shrnky]

Ya, because the banksters are the ones invading my privacy. Last time I checked it was the current and previous president. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.

[alive-or-not]

"Guns don't kill people"

Presidents are just tools in the hands of whoever owns the finance and media outlets.