Although I have seen roadkill on the information superhighway.

It's pretty silly to lump together, on the one hand, the first, fourth, and fifth amendments that are individually vital and also together add up to a right to privacy being shredded today; versus the phony reinterpretation of the second amendment that the NRA started pushing in the 1970s, which retired SC Justice Burger called "one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by any special interest group that I have ever seen in my lifetime." (For a good time google "burger second amendment fraud").

Nor is it entirely rational to lump together Snowden's words plus documents, which the NSA to its credit didn't bother trying to deny (but proceeded directly to rationalize and minimize), therefore an undisputed transgression by the government against the American people; with the paranoid belief that the Socialist Kenyan Usurper has a secret plan to take away all yer guns. A conspiracy theory isn't in the same league as a documented and undisputed leak.

This argument's over a decade old. I was against the Patriot Act, and I think that time has validated my concerns. Events today were inevitable and flow directly from the precedents set in those dark days.

Thanks.