Oh yes it it. US voters happily allow it. You allow it.
The problem is your government, whether Rep or Dem, sees you, the people, as the enemy. There for, the government is your enemy, an enemy with in. It must be logically. How else can that work? Now, why does your constitution allow guns? Why do so many US citizens insist on their right to gun ownership? Is it not to oppose such an enemy? Yet all Americans do is sit on their big old butts and type stuff on the internet. So, what are all those guns for? Polishing and comparing to penises? Are women attracted by them?
What makes me laugh (or is it cry) as a Brit is that mention universal health care and its commie time, people on the streets claiming health care will kill granny. Yet here is a Democrat government continuing and expanding the removal of your freedoms and privacy started with a Republican hawk government, and your all cool with it. All you do is bleat on the web, and that's that. As some one pointed out, you knew this in 2006. Yet here you are 6 years on, and its worse. You do nothing.
Don't get me wrong, its the same every where. People just accept this stuff. Which is why this disgusting spying on your own people lark, KGB style, is in fact absolutely acceptable. Your inaction says so.
Until the people say no, the government, either party, UK or US, does what the hell it likes. Its up to us.
