He’s a hero pure and simple. Our government needed to be exposed and he did it.
Well Harlow, if you must destroy the village in order to save it, then I'm not with you; count me out. (My Lai redux)
Substitute constitution for village above and that's what we face.
You broke the law Harlow and now you moan about a person blowing the whistle on your lawbreaking and you dare to call him a "traitor".
Plenty of 'agency' people say you don't need to be recording all of us on every phone call, every email, every Skype session, every internet search etc., in order to track terrorists.
You see Harlow, we as Tea Party conservative patriots have already been designated in your policy notebook as right wing wacko fringe radical terrorists etc. It won't be long before your off-book hidden Federal Reserve backed budget is used against us as you make our members start to 'disappear'. Just as the IRS hounded us and continues to harass us, you will zero your assets on us and find a pretext to go Waco on us. But you will go further with a lot of cleverly constructed strange disappearances and accidents.
Harlow, you are not CIA, you are KGB and your worst nightmare is seeing us take the reins of power where among the first actions should be having your fate mirror Ceausescu's.
Harlow, Tea Party Patriots are going to see if you and your circle have absolute power yet over elections by way of public opinion shaping media and control over election offices in critical counties on the turf of your Detroit like urban archipelago. Because if you don't have absolute control you're toast. You've got 10 months.
Harlow and Woolsey would make the US a country not worth defending. Thus, we could follow their prescription and then dismantle the CIA and NSA.
He is a hero, however he will never be safe here
Maybe if we stopped opening our borders to those who want to kill us and stopped funding their operations and giving them Cabinet positions we wouldn't need such Orwellian levels of snooping. Maybe that's the point.
Since the only ones now defined as "terrorists are Christians, Tea Party members, Veterans, etc. I have to wonder what those alleged "terrorist attacks" were.
As Edmund Burke allegedly said, “All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing”.
Mr. Snowden, at great personal risk; exposed OUR government, abusing our Constitutional rights in an ongoing, premedicated and illegal manner. Mr. Snowden, knowing that he was going to be persecuted, chose to do the right thing, instead of the easy thing.
That's not a very high standard, is it Debra?
It is now illegal to blow the whistle on the 4th branch of government doing illegal things...
It’s undeniable that Mr. Sowdon conclusively revealed the illegal and unconscionable spying on American citizens by the NSA. No matter what else you say about the guy, this is a truly heroic act.
It’s the Federal government that’s conniving against the people. This is truly heinous and evil and it’s nothing less than a declaration of war by the Federal government against the American citizen.
Well, this state/country has a Consitution that prohibits such activity without a warrant.
Townhall got acquired by some big, cigar-chomping mega-company, so it also got bitten by the big-is-good Dracula that also gradually liberalized Fox.