Drones and NSA @ Home: chickens coming home to roost

before Edward Snowden, there was Thomas Drake, whistleblower--why are we not surprised by this disclosure?

(from Thomas Drake)

FBI Director admits for first time "bureau had used surveillance drones inside the U.S." http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-76374461/ …

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(a Glenn Greenwald must-read recommendation) 

 

NSA and Silicon Valley, together like you've never seen them . . . 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/technology/silicon-valley-and-spy-agency-bound-by-strengthening-web.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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A curious mindset has crept into many Americans' mindset--I don't have anything to hide, so I'm not worried. And, the spying is only targeting "others."  This commonly quoted poem by Martin Niemoller came to mind: 

First they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

To those who have nothing to hide, it's often been suggested then that they post their passwords and social security number online. And others have asked if you have nothing to hide, are you OK w/ surveillance in the bathroom? your bedroom? Nothing to hide, right?