You're being spied on, and your emails recorded. This is now known fact: See PRISM. Switch your internet to a VPN, especially if you still Pirate. They could use that information against you in the future. If you're a nobody now you have no idea who you might be in 20 years time. Do yourself and your kids a favour.
Even in the UK, our government has followed suite with GCHQ and has been exposed. The government's involvement in the banking scandal preceded by this paint a picture of politicians not giving a fuck. They're making whatever laws they want and as vaguely as possible just so they can be purposely abused.
This is literally fiction become reality. 1984, V for Vendetta, take your pick. There were many attempts at prediction and some hit the marks better than others.
Why is it so hard to believe, with an ex CIA agent telling you it's true, that they knew and did nothing because it supported everything they wanted to do. It makes a lot of sense. No one at the top gives a fuck about anything because they see themselves as unaccountable by Law. See the law they wrote in to protect Bush's administration from prosecution.
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