Underground cultivation of marijuana causes great environmental damage.

This problem is caused by prohibition; legalization would reduce the environmental damage from marijuana cultivation to be comparable to any other crop. That would still cause environmental problems but it would cease to artificially multiply them.

All three branches of government approved the NSA's phone call record surveillance, not because it was valid, but because it had them all hornswoggled.

That would leave massive surveillance of Americans' phone calls. Phone companies keep these records, in some cases for years, and will hand them over retroactively when Big Brother asks for them in order to find a whistleblower.

Democracy requires a way for people to communicate without being identified to Big Brother.

The UK government's cuts in legal aid will deny justice in kinds of cases where it would require a lot of work.

Taiwan's government is rushing to sign a free exploitation treaty with China, which will surely do harm to Taiwanese workers just as the US's free exploitation treaties do.

The NSA and CIA can blackmail the president by threatening to expose when he said yes to illegal spying etc.