Noone with power gives a shit about life of a average US citizen.

This has been always about military industrial complex. Currently US spends 186.6 billion dollars a year to combat terrorism. Which means unless US is fighting something, somewhere they are losing money and they can't have that.

Patriot act requires them to do so. I am gonna guess they probably will unless they want to go to federal prison.

People who will spend 600 vs 250 pounds on GPU are completely different markets