Snowden: more like Ellsberg or Benedict Arnold?

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32. Is "anti-Snowdens" a phrase like "you people"?!1 Plus, I am not counted on this poll since I didn't

vote. Besides that raw polls that are not scientifically sampled are worth zilch. And what "democratic" means is exercising freedom of thought, being able to disagree, such that my benefit consists of expressing what I think about him or whatever or whomever, and my opinions have no relation to how popular or unpopular they are in numbers.

And to further clarify, my opinions about SNOWDEN/GREENWALD are very personal about them, their methods and motives, and have nothing to do with my defending whatever nefariousness in government or authoritarianism there might or might not be. Something about those two just doesn't sit well with my intuition.

And I don't want an answer to this, just want to (continue to observe) how frequently here on DU, attacks are made more on fellow DUers or other Democrats than on Wingnuts out there in the real world. I'll be using this quote from GREENWALD for a long time to come, loving it:


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http://ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br/2013/01/frequently-told-lies-ftls.html

[font size=5]"Frequently Told Lies (FTLs)[/font]

by Glenn GREENWALD

.... I'm a right-wing libertarian
Ever since I began writing about politics back in 2005, people have tried to apply pretty much every political [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]label[/FONT] to me. It’s almost always [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]a shorthand method to discredit someone without having to engage the substance[/FONT] of their arguments. It’s the classic [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]ad hominem[/FONT] fallacy: you don’t need to listen to or deal with his arguments because he’s an X. ...."

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