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Prism has done more harm to the USA that anything Snowden did. Let's not shift the blame away from the guilties. And the guilties are those who abuse their power in the name of security, along with those who let it happen ( the entire executive branch and congress basically ). Or would you prefer not to know anything about it ?

Obama says there are "checks and balances", there are none. Given the situation today , it's not difficult to imagine what the situation will be 10 years from now. And putting republicans in power wont make a difference.

Frankly i dont know if there is any solution to that problem. Politicians never give up willing the power they steal from the people.

Good luck america.



> Prism has done more harm to the USA that anything Snowden did.

We don't know that.

And if we were to speculate, we could observe that there have been very few terrorist attacks on the US in the past ten years. I'm not trying to equate correlation and causation here, just pointing out that very few people on the planet are able to assess whether PRISM is beneficial or detrimental to the security of the US.


> And if we were to speculate, we could observe that there have been very few terrorist attacks on the US in the past ten years.

Is that accurate? The list I found on Wikipedia indicates it is not but perhaps you have a better source of information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States


> Prism has done more harm to the USA that anything Snowden did.

PRISM is nothing more than subpoena and warrant compliance in a digital age.

Stuff like the mass collection of all internet traffic is far more concerning, but that isn't what PRISM does.




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