“FR hails Snowden’s “brave” flight to Moscow—?? Wow. You all should have been around in the middle of the last century.”
It’s a shame that he has to flee. In the middle of the last century we thought that such things the NSA and the IRS do at the moment could never ever happen in the US. We simply had a look over the iron courtain and knew what government should not do to it’s citizens. It was the time when right was right and wrong was wrong. We’ve lost that benchmark of “what gov should never do” set by the soviets after the cold war.
We used to laugh and make fun of the Russians for putting up with what the IRS and NSA (and likely others) are doing to us now. My, times certainly have changed!