The NSA breaks the law every day.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you say.

They monitor your phone calls and emails anyway.

Corrupt Congress and courts paving the way.

There's a lesson you'll learn someday.

Watch what you say.

Shaked Bhuthar is a constitutional lawyer and a man who speaks truth to power in many forums

from his music to directing the Bill of Rights Defense Committee

to now being the

director of grassroots advocacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

He has been featured on numerous news outlets such as CNN, Fox, and the New York Times.

Thank you for joining the Guadalajara Geopolitics podcast.

You're so very kind.

I'm happy to do it.

Before we talk about some of the issues of gun control of what you wrote about on Truthout,

as well as digital privacy for which you work with at the EFF, I'd like to set the context,

which some people describe as an increasing authoritarian or totalitarian state or creeping fascism or a militarized police state.

Do these descriptions go too far in describing the state of the U.S. government today?

Or do they bear merit?

What are your thoughts, especially as a constitutional lawyer?

I wouldn't describe the United States as exactly a police state, though it really depends on

the community that you come from, the perspective you have here.

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