what do Americans think about the NSA scandal

[FireIceTalon]

I am not surprised really. If you ask me, this is de facto action by the state which generally takes such measures when the capitalist system hits a crisis. The only difference between now and any previous time is that the technology is much more advanced, so they have more ways to keep tabs on citizens. But at the same time, we also tend to know more and faster what they are doing. Since government has explicitly shown they have always held allegiance to and cooperation with the capitalist system and thus by default big corporations, it seems to me this is just another step in the process of fascism to protect the capitalists interests. After all, the greater the power, the greater the paranoia - actions such as this seem inevitable when you are really good at pissing a lot of people (in particular working people) off by putting unpopular wars on credit cards and expanding policies of austerity. When capitalism is fine, its business as usual. But when it is in crisis, like it is now, the capitalists and their state apparatus get nervous, and things like this are the result. The paranoia in this uncanny. Anti-terrorism is the means to "justify" this, not the ends. It has almost nothing to do with anti-terrorism at all. Stalin used socialism as a vehicle in the same way for justifying his own power, not because he had any vestiges in actually building socialism. Same with Hitler and the concept of nationalism and German pride.

What does surprise me is that there seems to be a general outrage, yet no protests of any kind have taken place to my knowledge.