Education and knowledge are a personal responsibility. The worst part is that this event was reported on, and Americans apparently didn't care enough to remember it, so now that we're reminded of what we should have already known, it's a brand new outrage, same as the last forgotten outrage. If the People don't care enough to know what's going on, they reap the consequences of their apathy, and we collectively deserve every bit of it.
This problem goes back well beyond Obama, even before the Patriot Act. The problem is that we're a nation of spoiled, fat children who expect o have everything handed to us. the government bends over backwards to accommodate that, and in doing so, violates the Constitution, and every sense of human decency to make sure Uncle Sam's hundreds of millions of little babies get what they want. It's a continuous cycle of enabling, and it's not something to be proud of. It's a cancer that needs to be cut out and incinerated. This country is sick and dying, and nobody in this country seems to give a ****, and long as they can get what's in it for them.