Provocative Observation on the Terrorist Surveillance Program

Fellow SOB'er NixGuy offers an extremely thought provoking observation on the Terrorist Surveillance Program:

...I’m also appalled that the consensus on Slashdot. Apparently they are outraged at the thought of the feds tapping a call to China for example, yet that same call may and probably will be tapped by the Chinese. Are you going to get outraged at the chinese as well? No? Well then you don’t have any expectation of privacy on international calls then do you? So much for the chilling effect...