“Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.”

–Terry Pratchett, Snuff

That was explained beautifully

“Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

Reminder that Snowden is still on the Most Wanted list for his bravery in leaking information that the NSA assumes EVERY resident and citizen of the US is potential terrorist and is therefore subject to investigation/wire tapping/tracking/spying without any prior notice or publicly viewable warrant.

On a lighter note we got the meme “FBI agent listening to all of my conversations” from him