I guess I was a bit too hard on you, my apologies. On of the reasons I came to Hubski was to escape the unproductive hyperbole around the NSA's activities that were on Reddit. No idiotic comparisons to 1984 (yep, you can openly badmouth your government with no immediate repercussions but you're TOTALLY living in a police state), no nonsense claims of "don't say that, or Obama gunna put you on the list!" (from the noxious crowd of Republicans pretending to be libertarians pretending to be Republicans that have brigaded their way into the major subreddits), and no hyperbolic scare phrases like "post-Constitution America."

Were we in "post-Constitution America" in 1791 when the Washington government put down the Whiskey Rebellion?

Were we in "post-Constitution America" in 1798 when the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed?

Were we in "post-Constitution America" in 1832 when John Calhoun said "Nuh-uh, South Carolina doesn't have to follow your laws!"

Were we in "post-Constitution America" in 1836 when Andrew Jackson ended the Second Bank of the United States because he personally didn't like it?

Were we in "post-Constitution America" in 1860 when South Carolina basically said "fuck it, we're out of here" and we fought a war over that?

Were we in "post-Constitution America" in 1866 when we sent troops down to monitor Southern state governments during Reconstruction?

Were we in "post-Constitution America" in 1918 when we started jailing people for making Revolutionary War films because it made the British, our wartime allies, look bad?

Were we in "post-Constitution America" in 1942 when we put Japanese- and German-Americans in concentration camps then dragged our feet for four decades to apologize to them?

Were we in "post-Constitution America" in 1950 when we executed the Rosenbergs?

I could go on and on, but my point is, using recent events as some proof that the government is overstepping its bounds in a never-before-seen way is foolish, shortsighted, and a blatant attempt at fearmongering.