The problem with attacking Snowden...

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12. Excellent posts! In a nutshell, what the Snowden bashers are doing is character assassination.

And my problems with what they are doing is:

1. Character assassination is a dick move. It's a class-A violation of the Law of Wheaton. It's douchey, it's immoral, it's despicable, it's a move worthy of characters like Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover or Richard Nixon. The people participating by all rights should be hanging their heads in shame, but of course, they've demonstrated they don't have any shame.

2. It distracts from the real issue, which is that the NSA has become the American Stasi and is snooping on the communications of virtually every person in America and much of the rest of the planet. It's damned well unconstitutional, it's almost certainly illegal, and it's absolutely immoral. But the Snowden