Freep a Poll!(Snowden right to leak documents on government's secret surveillance program?)

The people who scare me are the people who voted “Don’t care”.

It’s those guys that roll over on any important issue, because they’re too busy following gossip and reality shows.

As for me: I had a problem with the PATRIOT Act, and the reason was because I knew we couldn’t count on the Presidency being held by decent people. It gives WAY more power to the gov’t than it should. I remember catching a lot of flak for raising this red flag back when the law was being debated, but here we are, 0bama is pResident, and trampling freedoms. If the GOP had any sense they’d take this opportunity to team up with the libertarians and liberals NOT in Obama’s pocket, and repeal the damn thing. They could get a veto-proof majority!

Of course, this would mean that the GOPe would have to give up THEIR ability to wield unholy power over us.

The Constitution is pretty clear on this. What the NSA is up to now is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and trampling over essential liberty crucial to our nation.

Funny, the government “leaked” selected results of the DADT study survey in 2010 to the media in order to sway the results. Nothing happened to them.

Ok. Top Secret Documents compared to a survey? Come on......you know darn well that giving Top Secret Documents to someone who does not rate them is wrong. It is amazing how people think this is ok. He could have given an interview and told some of the things being done, but to give Top Secret Documents? If this was the Bush Administration, you would be calling for his death.

I admit to being rather confliced about this one. In one sense, what Snowden did seems almost heroic. Yet his fleeing the US, in order to avoid prosecution, does not.

In the end, Dr. Martin Luther King is really my standard here: There are times, I believe, when there exists a moral imperative to break the law, in order to call national attention to blatant wickedness. But one should be willing to accept the legal consequences of that lawbreaking--regardless of what may have animated it, or what good may have been accomplished by it--and on this matter, Snowden fails the test, it seems to me.

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