we're keeping you safe. if you stop us from doing this, you will be left safe. essentially putting the 4th amendment against people's feelings of personal safety. last thing i'll say is in terms of the racial dynamics, there is this adage or old sense that civil liberties are for white people and civil rights for black people. they begin to come together when we look at the massive amount of work the government is doing against all of our communities and there are opportunities for folks to come together. >> david, how do you put guts on the nsa story when even i come in here and i think about it, where it just seem remote. i think to myself, i guess there's a database somewhere that might have some thing i have, i don't know. what's that going to do to my life at the end of the day? >> well, look, i think that's a fair question. i think that's where imaginations can run wild. look, i wrote a piece today for nsfwcorp about how we have to wonder whether members of congress have to fear what the n