If you told me in 2005 that in ten years, the NSA would monitoring all electronic communications, the police would be militarized and have "black sites," and companies would be spying on you in your own home, I'd have made you a tin foil hat.

I guess the lesson is that bad things happen in baby steps, and if you don't take action on the little things, you can't imagine what horror the future holds.

EDIT: If your response is "Oh this shit has been going on forever," you've missed my point. It's about people putting their heads in the sand and not doing anything about it. We all know this has been going on forever. We've responded with cynicism. Apathy. Willful ignorance. The point I'm trying to make is- stop waiting for "the big outrageous event" before you help take aggressive corrective action. That event will never happen, by design. We have to draw a line in the sand.