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In reply to the discussion: Ed Snowden: Leakers “should be shot in the balls,” and "cut this Social Security bullshit" [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)hypocritical than claiming to be a democracy while spending billions of dollars on a vast surveillance infrastructure and claiming we 'need it for our security'.
I can't think of anything more hypocritical than swearing to 'Defend and Protect the Constitution of the US' while dismantling all the protections of people's rights contained within it.
I can't think of anything more hypocritical than calling HIM a hypocrite IF we support the destruction of people's rights while claiming to be 'fighting for our freedoms'.
I hope, if he really was so gung-ho for the war machine and the surveillance state, then changed his mind after he saw what was going on, that there are going to be many, many more who will have a similar awakening because we so badly need them to expose these anti-democratic policies before it's too late.