Your point Skybird I agree with and is correct....Checks and Balances are what is needed or supposed to have been in place...the circumstances that rocked my country cannot be used for any"one" persons agenda.
Other side of the coin to the whole thing I think is kinda silly....why do Americans think it is such a horror ..."O how dare they easedrop on an American Citizen" but it is ok to listen in on ALL other countries conversations?.....what's good for the goose is ok with me....
One who does not break the law has nothing to fear....Checks and Balances again are key here.
Following a recent conversation between Iceman and his children....
"Hi dad...
Hi sweetie....
Hows your day going?....
O.K.....Just putting up with the smell of dog poop in this customers backyard while I am installing there phone/internet/and tv service....
That's gross dad....
Yea but dad does it because he loves you guys.
We love you dad...
I love you too sweetie....I'll see you when I get home....
OK daddy....buckle up....
I always do sweetie...bye bye
Bye..."
Big national security threat here....lol.