Bend over and shut up we are good peeps and the others that will rape you if we "pull-out" would be much worse.
Sad to see a programmer be so lost. Kudos for the post but if the NSA was squashing terrorist attacks daily with evidence of their efficacy they would be screaming it from the roof tops.
Snowden proved the implicit insecurity of information aggregation on such a massive scale and if he had access so will nation states... the one that I fear most is my own county.
I am a patriot too, just sad.