Sadly I got one from Best Buy AND Chase. It's bad enough that these guys know that I shop at Best Buy, but to know where I have one of my bank accounts? That's just frickin' creepy!

To expect anything better than "fewer casualties" is an instance of the perfect solution fallacy, from what I can tell.

Well you know what? I'll bet that there aren't stormtroopers knocking on American doors if you use "ammonium nitrate" or other such key words on communications networks. Case in point? You were able to post an entire rant against the US government and its allies without it being blocked and without getting yourself taken away to Guantanamo Bay and being electrocuted by a cattle prod. Funny you should make all these complaints when we're talking about China, a nation that actually punishes dissent. Oh, and while I'm at it, I might as well point out out that you shouldn't have put the phrase "democratically elected" in quotation marks the way you did. Quotation marks don't make you sound more sophisticated.