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In reply to the discussion: Re: Attacks on Snowden, Greenwald. How the fuck do people like that sleep at night? [View all]20score
(4,769 posts)arguments that the Bushies made a few years ago. Not only the same degrading, intelligence insulting tactics, but the very same arguments.
I am very ashamed of some in my party. Taking the side of power when it's clearly in the wrong, against weaker targets trying to do the right thing. The people defending the NSA, et al, are causing lasting damage to investigative journalists, whistle-blowers, our economy, our national standing in the world, to anyone trying to weaken the hold money has over our politicians, to free expression, and the list goes on. Without privacy, there can be no real freedom.
These people and the Bushies before them who defended the spying years ago, have now firmly entrenched these programs, which will only grow in size and scope.
When the authoritarians - and that is what you people are, if you don't the term, then do the right thing - switch sides again during the next republican presidency, it will be too late.