Obama Makes Your Police State 100% Legal

The big takeaway from all the government surveillance news is still this: it is 100% legal.  What the government is doing, the government has made legal.  It's a good fucking trick, especially the part about secret courts that oh so conveniently make Constitutional challenges in other courts pretty much impossible.  Neat!  What they take, they will use. That is the nature of surveillance and the police state.  You don't have to be a criminal to be intimidated, and that is pointiest point.  When you have no privacy and no hope of justice, you will put up with a fuckload of indignity and fear to prevent something way more terrible, like a secret arrest or drone murder or whatever.  It's not a bug, it's a feature of the new America.  Obama's America.  Welcome!