By YLH
As someone who considers himself a great admirer of the US legal system, the American belief in constitutional rights and personal freedoms, recent developments in the US vis a vis NSA's PRISM has saddened me greatly. I feel shattered, cheated - almost as if I have believed in a lie all these years. One always suspected that there may be some surveillance but to think that it would be so widespread - worse than fiction (remember Enemy of the State?)- it is just mind blowing. Remember we are talking of surveillance that goes beyond anything the former Soviet Union was guilty of. What then of the leader of the free world?
As someone who considers himself a great admirer of the US legal system, the American belief in constitutional rights and personal freedoms, recent developments in the US vis a vis NSA's PRISM has saddened me greatly. I feel shattered, cheated - almost as if I have believed in a lie all these years. One always suspected that there may be some surveillance but to think that it would be so widespread - worse than fiction (remember Enemy of the State?)- it is just mind blowing. Remember we are talking of surveillance that goes beyond anything the former Soviet Union was guilty of. What then of the leader of the free world?
