Justice Dept. defends secret rulings in new spy court filing

Re:Justice Dept. defends secret rulings in new spy court filing by e3pi on Monday July 08, 2013 @07:55PM (#6010221)

>What "massive public outrage?" A pitiful 400 people showed up to the San Francisco "Restore the 4th" protests.

As far as I could tell, a total of `1' in Seattle. You know in Poker there's a `sucker' in every hand? Out on Westlake Center, Seattle, at noon on the 4th of July, that would be me. At least I left the pitchfork at home.

The only other time I came over to participate in one of these group-hugs, was the Turkish/Egypt-O'clock WTO protest in 1999. That one was different.

`Save the 4th' showed their cards, and NSA took the pot. The people have spoken: "meh".

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Re:Justice Dept. defends secret rulings in new spy court filing by SoftwareMaven on Monday July 08, 2013 @08:23PM (#6010336)

I disagree that it is that simple. I found out exactly an hour before the Utah NSA Datacenter event was scheduled to happen; not exactly easy to deal with on a national holiday. I also think the Occupy protests (and subsequent police actions) have had a very chilling effect on protests in the US.

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