Security

Some polls indicate that U.S. citizens are satisfied with the government surveillance programs instituted through the Patriot Act. They feel safe. Well, I would ask them these questions:

 

Did all this surveillance prevent the number of illegal immigrants to rise to more than 11 million?

 

Did all this surveillance prevent the massacre of children at Newtown, Connecticut?

 

Did all this surveillance prevent the Marathon Bombing in Boston this year?

Did all this surveillance find Whitey Bulger?

 

Is this surveillance really about protecting the public, or is it about protecting the government and the corporations which the government now represents?