> Well, the beauty of a democratic society is that if a majority agree with you, then you can change the system. Personally, I disagree with you, but it's a free country.

The majority are disengaged, disinterested and apathetic.

Furthermore, the particularly abhorrent feature of these programs is that their existence was kept secret. Secret courts issuing secret orders to secret services to work in secret violating citizens' right to privacy.

Without these leaks, citizens lacked the capacity to change this system, because they had no idea this system even existed.