For example, if you live in California, perhaps you could call Dianne Feinstein, who when asked about this program today said, "It's called protecting America."
You can contact her if you feel better. As for me, I have a folder full of form letter responses from her office explaining why it's so important that our civil liberties and privacy be curtailed to ensure our security. I don't think adding another letter to my collection will help anything. And I doubt her responses will do anything other than enrage you further.
The only sensible response at this point is to work to get her out of office in 2018. But I don't have hope for that, either.
Unfortunately, the best we can hope for is that she retires in 2018.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/cease-overbroad-su...
The petition site is just the White House's way of trolling the internet into thinking they care about "internet problems".
The more signatures on both, the better the chance of an official response.
Currently, I am seeing 16/30 articles on the front page describing the same thing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-d...
"The administration has now lost all credibility. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it."
So it's okay to submit as an article, just not for a mere mortal commenter to basically say the same fucking thing. Which reminds me, I use phrases like "'n shit" to distance myself from you lot. I could "polite talk" like the best of them, I just don't trust people who can't say "fuck", so I don't see a reason to. Think of it as garlic to vampires.
We're dealing with monsters made up of many people who I am sure are actually trying to be decent people as individuals. And even if they were ALL ranging from jerks to really evil, it's not them that makes this suck so much, it's the combination of billions of people being mediocre and incredible technology. That alone is enough, no super villains needed, sadly.
TL;DR stop playing into the hands of the cancer that is taking figureheads as the substance.
