HN fields roughly 200,000 unique visitors each day, most of which have a markedly anti-gov't-spying slant[1], that's enough evidence to be in their cross-hairs.
[1]: Such that in some capacity you might participate in the creation/promotion of methods or software to get around their snooping technologies.
Yup. I think that we all classify as "Enemy sympathizers". I wonder when we will be classified as "Enemy combatants?". As soon as somebody mentions violence, I suppose.
I'm a little worried now because I visited his page, and this will surely be logged, hence my past online activities may now be investigated.