I get that slurping the content and meta data is bad, and I get that keeping that is bad. And it must stop. And I'm glad people are doing stuff to change government behaviours.

But still, I look at stories like these...

(http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/06/29/37770.htm) " Dayton police "mistook" a mentally handicapped teenager's speech impediment for "disrespect," so they Tasered, pepper-sprayed and beat him and called for backup from "upward of 20 police officers" after the boy rode his bicycle home to ask his mother for help"

(http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/2-officers-out-of-jobs-in...) Woman calls police for help; is repeatedly tasered and pepper sprayed

(http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/24/28330.htm) 86 yr old bed-ridden woman tasered after pulling knife from under pillow

...and I wonder why Americans aren't vigorously campaigning for better law enforcement.

These aren't hypothetical abuses that might happen in future under a worse government. These are all actual examples of abusive law enforcement, that are affecting real people today.

Having your medical needs neglected until your penis rots off and you die of penile cancer (http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/dec/10/cover/) is barbaric.

Popehat has all of these here: (http://www.popehat.com/2012/05/02/citizen-incredulity-and-la...)

> This is the flaw with the idea that you don't have anything to hide.

I'm not saying that people don't have anything to hide. I'm saying that even the people who do have something to hide have more important things to worry about than NSA slurping 3 days of content. (But not that the NSA slurping that content is acceptable, it isn't.)