The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

I've been watching The Wire recently.

It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in the world to say that you can't do this.

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that was entirely within our control to stop? Or was it a relatively instantaneous sea change that sneaked in undetected because of pervasive government secrecy?

There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.