Is NSA leaker the same Edward Snowden in Hawaii who is a Ron Paul supporter?

[baldguy]

42. Because it calls into question his motives & his characterization of the program.

There is a massive difference between a run-of-the-mill libertarian, who might recognize some legitimate concerns of civil liberties vs. national security, and a coocoo-cloudlander Randian Objectivist, who supports & is supported by the Drs Paul, and who views the exercise of any govt authority or any govt responsibility - legitimate or not, intentional or not, imaginary or not - as a direct physical assault on their person.

He's supposedly worried about the govt gathering metadata on our phone calls & reading our emails. But says nothing about multinational corporations doing the exact same thing.

If his objective is to destroy the govt - and make no mistake, that's exactly what Randians want to do - what better way than to allow the admittedly limited & imperfect security apparatus that helps protect it (and us, BTW) to be dismantled?