Yeah, but those were groups who have as one of their political purposes tax avoidance...

I mean... it's like sending a police officer to a store where someone has threatened to rob it beforehand.

If the FBI wants to investigate someone who has said they're determined to kill people with a bomb, I don't have a problem with them surveiling that person.

and you want to give up as much of your income as possible for taxes? Ludicrous argument.

I think yours might be more short sighted. I, quite explicitly, feel compelled to pay taxes. To say that you will always minimize your taxes explicitly denotes your misanthropy and failure to value civilization.

This is what I'd worry about:

If I attended a protest like Occupy Wall Street or something, and gmailed my friends about it. Then, a year later, was told that I can't board an airplane because I'm on a no-fly list.

That's what we call a Chilling Effect.

Nothing new here.

Anyone remember this? This was 3 years ago.

"A US government-mandated backdoor allowed China to hack into Gmail"

"In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hackin...