Tell me why I have to listen to a 30 year old, know-nothing punk about.......anything?
Tell me why I have to listen to a 30 year old, know-nothing punk about.......anything?
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Because he saw something evil, illiberal and illegal and took personal risks to make his findings public. He did know something few others knew with certainty and he proved it.
We used to characterize such actions for the common good in the face of personal risk to life and freedom as bravery.
You don’t have to listen. But you can no longer say you didn’t know your government was spying on you and on its own former allies and was using the results of that spying to punish its detractors and increase its own tyranny.