Re:  Yaron Brook: NSA Monitoring — Should We Be Worried?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39uZ_gpnOR0

Yes. This discussion summarizes the issue concisely. I would go further though: Rand said, paraphrase, Don’t bother to examine a folly, ask yourself what it accomplishes.

I would ask: What does this refusal to name the enemy accomplish? What does the Patriot Act accomplish?

Those are, unfortunately, at this point, easy questions to answer: They give a power-lusting progressive cadre virtually unlimited power, the keys to the government and military of the most powerful country in the world. Why in the Hell would they voluntarily give that up? Sure they express outrage, from Obama to Graham, McCain, and Boehner (I leave out Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and maybe a couple of others, right now), but that outrage seems somewhat staged and, listening to Republicans defending PRISM, merely for the benefit of the constituents, while looking for a way to make what they perceive as a little public relations problem disappear.

In the light Yaron sheds on the issue, its roots in the deliberate failure to name the enemy, The War on Terror can be seen in no other way than The War on the United States of America, a war that is enslaving its citizens and only looking worse day by day.