The point was to publicly challenge the people that work for the surveillance-industrial-complex. That is simply free speech. The other party has the right to yell back if the desire, or to simply leave[1]l.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
There is a difference between crude or vulgar name-calling/insults and challenging someone with language that is frank, strong, and maybe a bit rude. One is just trying to make people angry and the other is seeking to throw a bucket of cold water onto someone's naive or harmful point of view.[2]
[1] Free speech doesn't guarantee you an audience.
[2] Failure to understand this distinction is why some people perceive Linus Torvalds as being rude and "foul mouthed".
I don't understand why someone would choose to say that the NSA or their workers are innocent, as we have mountains of evidence to their obvious malfeasance.
There is 0 path to justice in holding our government accountable, so welcome to the impotent rage of the masses.
You are mistaken if you think people should only be taken to task within a court hearing.
In any case these guys are never going to court.
Jaywalking, sure. Homicide, not so much.
FISA? In my dealings with sociopaths, or merely the deluded, nothing sets the record straight like a public calling out on their bullshit.
The softly softly approach with these enablers doesn't work quick enough, unless you meet them regularly. You want the experience to stick.