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In reply to the discussion: Im tired of the everyone concentrating on Snowden and not the surveillance state [View all]99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Think about it. The Dark Side is going in for the kill, to neuter the 4th Amendment
so much that any journalist who dares to have any source who dares say something
"off message" must fear for their very lives, which all has a cascading effect, where
essentially the lights go very dim in a whole sector of the news profession.
If "what is REALLY REALLY going on", that ONLY POTUS gets to find out about
once he/she is elected, is SO at variance, SO at odds, SO totally different, etc.
than what "the American public" imagines is going on, that this difference completely
alters the POTUS's positions on a whole range of issues, from closing Gitmo, to
over-use of drones to the point of creating more terrorists than they are killing,
etc. <-- IF this is pretty much true, then a very good case can -- and I think
should -- be made that this HUGE disparity needs to be somehow bridged quickly &
democratically so as to return to some semblance of government of, by and for
The People, not the Super-Rich.
Without any free press whatsoever, we're completely sunk.