Blacks are focused on the fact that the militarization of police forces to fight the drug war is going on now. We see that stand Your ground laws make it open season on unarmed Blacks of all genders. The legal system drags its feet in bringing charges.Juries side with murderers. Added to the mix is an organized attempt to keep Blacks from voting so that the ability to vote out politicians who vote for laws aimed at either keeping Blacks in their place or eliminating Blacks is blunted.

Blacks are not supportive of NSA Surveillance because they went through the J Edgar Hoover years that targeted Martin Luther King Jr. However, when the argument is made that the Black community should join in lockstep with Snowden and Greenwald who point out the potential dangers of NSA Surveillance because the gathered information could be used to target segments of society with intimidation by law enforcement and possibly rig elections or pressure segments of the population not to vote, Blacks wonder if people concerned about government overreach have been paying attention to what is happening in front of their eyes.

Armored police are already here. Physical surveillance of Blacks who have committed no crimes is here today.Portions of the population feel that they have been deputized to murder Blacks minding their own business, or seeking help. The danger is now not in a dystopian NSA future. Blacks realize that they will have to fight or their own salvation just as they have done throughout the history of the Unite States.

There is a direct line between armored police, deputized armed citizens afraid of those with different skin hues and the sense that if one group can be targeted let's target everybody. The NYPD targets Blacks with Stop and Frisk and monitors NYC mosques. Why are we surprised that the NSA does mega-monitoring.

By the way, does anyone remember the unarmed Muslim acquaintance of the Boston Bombers who died during an interview with multiple law enforcement officials? I expect there will be no convictions in that case just like I expect no convictions in the case of Ms. McBride. The lives of the "others" are unimportant.

I worry more about the present landscape than I do about what the Keystone Kops of the NSA will do. Hoover used index cards.

Well at least for a brief period of time the hot-headed murderer will be unarmed. The judge took away his access to guns.