You may feel secure but it's only because you don't know what is really happening on a daily basis. Snowden and Assange tried their best to show some of that.
I myself was almost killed by the LAPD in 2011. The FBI didn't give a fuck. VICE news didn't give a fuck. And many of the other information packets I sent around the country were ignored.
Contrary to what you may think, you can be tortured in America and there will be no recourse. Adult or kid, this country isn't some safe haven.
These are the kind of burns I incurred after being hit by a militarized microwave beam [1] [2] for three days in a row, unrelentingly nearly every second of those three days. This device was gifted to Los Angeles by Raytheon and was only intended for 3 seconds of pulsed use in dispersing prison riots. But of course, the device had no misuse prevention mechanisms. I still have scars to prove it.