I am having a hard time being convinced that Snowden is evil. He may be stupid or misguided or wrong...but even the words of John Bolton and Dick Cheney, two men I respect, are not able to convince me (as of yet) that this guy has done something out of line.
We currently have in office a regime that is not dedicated to equal protection of the citizenry. We have a regime that dislikes classical Christianity, our Constitution and the basics of free market capitalism. This regime has APPARENTLY been creating databases on NOT JUST those who fit the profile of a middle eastern terrorist, but on ALL Americans...reminds me of, say, Robert F Kennedy bugging Martin Luther King Jr., a black Republican who RFK wanted to keep tabs on....
Anyway. I don’t object to the existence of NSA surveillance programs. I DO object to those powers being in the hands of unethical thugs. Abuse always follows...and that is what I believe Snowden, knowingly or not, has exposed.
Anyone else have thoughts on this? I deeply respect Cheney and Bolton, so perhaps I am seeing this in the wrong light. I just can’t bring myself to feeling sorry for Obama’s bad behavior being brought into the open.
I agree with you. The Obama / NSA / Bolton argument seems to be simply, “if we don’t ignore the Fourth Amendment, then we won’t get this information.”