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"I find it shocking the lack of public reaction to the behaviour of various world governments"

Human reasoning doesn't work on logic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

So you shouldn't, the vast majority of the public is stupid, uneducated and illiterate.

Lastly capitalist societies are not set up to defend themselves vs the rich... see here, the spying is for dissidents not terrorists.

Important:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

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