Shielded from criticism by their hollow concerns for our "safety," our sanctimonious political "representatives" mindlessly work to erode our basic freedoms. They create license to access and record our innermost thoughts and interactions. They draft laws that, decades ago, were considered as science fiction glimpses into future dystopian societies. Well, the future is here.
It seems they fail to comprehend that it their slavish devotion to the military-industrial enterprise and general greed that are the root causes of the very evils they they seek to combat.
Politicians would do well to remember that their political careers will at some point end; they will rejoin the unprivileged citizenry that they have incrementally made less safe and certainly less free. They and their families and associates will be subject to the same insidious laws they have drafted. Too often, their ignorance and shortsightedness regarding the Internet of Things empower authoritarian agencies to suck up oceans of private data about all of us. That information is vulnerable to being mined by the clever.
I have read of a cyber group known as Anonymous that state they neither forget nor forgive. One can only hope that those politicians who so foolishly legislated away our basic rights to privacy see their own privacy invaded and their private thoughts and conversations published for all to see.
The Universe ultimately balances the equations, but sometimes it needs a little help to accelerate the processes.