> I know that these measures suck and all but is the US government really becoming as evil as people say?
Your government (just like any other) is full of people who only care about their own personal gain. It's a slippery slope.
The Western world is full of politicians taking campaign donations (=bribes) in exchange for weaseling through whatever legislation their benefactors benefit from (at the expense of ordinary people), and that presents no problem for their consciences. Further along on the same road, there are places like Egypt, where the government tortures citizens to make an example of what happens when they have the audacity oppose their masters.
They want personal gain, and they want to maintain whatever machinery provides it to them. They're all just people though, the same human race all over. If an Egyptian homo sapiens is capable of abhorrent tyranny, so is an American one.
It's two opposing camps: the government against the governed. Just like in a war, the enemy is not really personified. It's just them vs us.
Your government (just like any other) is full of people who only care about their own personal gain. It's a slippery slope.
The Western world is full of politicians taking campaign donations (=bribes) in exchange for weaseling through whatever legislation their benefactors benefit from (at the expense of ordinary people), and that presents no problem for their consciences. Further along on the same road, there are places like Egypt, where the government tortures citizens to make an example of what happens when they have the audacity oppose their masters.
They want personal gain, and they want to maintain whatever machinery provides it to them. They're all just people though, the same human race all over. If an Egyptian homo sapiens is capable of abhorrent tyranny, so is an American one.
It's two opposing camps: the government against the governed. Just like in a war, the enemy is not really personified. It's just them vs us.