The Snowden case is having a very interesting effect —cleaving the left into cynical Leftists, and some really brave Authority Questioners.
And it’s having a similar effect on the right —a LOT of people that I thought I was similar to apparently are just from a weird, authority rah-rah crowd, or folks who reflexively support **ANYTHING** that is paramilitary or has a badge —”load ‘em onto the railcars” set.
Snowden is a filter for GENUINE freedom-lovers on both the left and right, and it has had the odd effect of making me identify more with some people who ordinarily I would have considered as America Haters —but apparently they’re sincere.
Agreed completely.
I believe you should have capitalized “FILTER” as well.
THEY want to divide us once again...to pit us against
each other AND to see just who are the GENUINE freedom-lovers. They need filters to see who should be targeted
next - who are the hard core believers of freedom...
Strange things is, the only sitting politicians who complained about it, before Snowden leaked, were Democrats.
i think this story is doing a good job separating republicans from conservatives. the wheat from the chaff.
seeing all these liberals defend Obama on the issue reminds me of the end of Animal Farm:
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
That sums up the Obama administration