David Brooks: Edward Snowden is the worst traitor EVER!

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38. I have never read such gobledee-gook in my life....

... that wasn't fit to print! Did I read the word conscience in that article anywhere? If so, it did not stick out at me. All I could see was David Brooks "view" of Snowden's mistake of NOT being blindingly loyal to an "oath" to the National Security State (NSS).

The reason we didn't see the word "conscience" is that David Brooks doesn't have one. To him, one's conscience is forfeited when you take the oath to the nether world of the NSS of our government. Without a conscience, you go about your business of doing the unconscionable, like it's factory work. Like a hit man. No conscience, no problem. Hey, you have a job! And a good paying one too.

But Edward Snowden goofed up bad. He let his conscience creep in and felt he just could not go on. And by God, he felt he needed to get it off his chest. It wasn't enough to just quit, walk away and keep his mouth shut. He might not have felt any loyalty to the NSS, but he did feel loyalty to the Constitution of the USA.

I've done allot of reading in my life and when he called Snowden "unmediated" in the first paragraph, I had to stop and look up the word. WTF does "mediate" mean. The definition of that word in my mind didn't match up with Brook's usage of it. Sounds faintly like a Union term. What I found in the old fashioned dictionary could barely match Brooks definition. Basically, his NYTimes editorial put-down of Snowden defined the word.

Oh yeah, and now since ES "betrayed the cause of open government", there will have to be even MORE secrecy. Really. I can't imagine MORE secrecy.

The closest Brooks gets to Snowden's "conscience" he calls "his own preferences" or his "moral dilemmas."

And the last paragraph is absolutely incomprehensible. This man needs to be taken away in a straight-jacket. He has left his mind.

I have never read such garbage in my life. Not even by David Brooks.
What. A. Prostitute. For the National Security State.

Thanks, jsr, for the OP. I had not heard of this editorial yet.

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