Comment Re:Dumbass (Score 1) 168
It's a nice try, but it's not analogous, and I think you know that.
For one thing, Bletchley Park didn't monitor their citizens wholesale; they didn't have the technical capability to do that.[1] That's the part of Snowden's revelations that infuriates so many people, and should also make you afraid. You don't have to go very far back in US history to be afraid of such a thing: imagine if J. Edgar Hoover had the NSA's assets. Monitoring foreign powers is a different story, and I have a hard time believing that part of Snowden's leaks truly surprised any foreign nation (it's what we pay the CIA to do, ultimately).
For another thing, we're not actually in a war right now, unless you want to claim the "war on terror" is an excuse to do such things. (a type of "war" that conveniently has no possible end date, no possibility of peace treaties, armistice, etc.; and a type of "war" in which everyone is a suspect... the proverbial boogeyman)
[1] Ironically Britain's gone a lot further in monitoring their citizens these days than Bletchley Park could, and further than even the US has gone. But that doesn't really matter. Last time I checked, the US revolted from British rule, and had some documents they claimed they abide by instead.