Nobody is going to change their mind about Snowden.

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88. "demand to think unilaterally" - yip, plus the name-calling ("authoritarians") - plus

For starters, the so-called transparency/whistle-blowing vs. privacy is not the issue for me. It's totally personal about SNOWDEN/GREENWALD. They should be named "Denmark" because there's something rotten in them, their methods and motives.

As for what their revelations, I didn't need to know details to have my assumptions confirmed that my data is out there, just from the daily annoying and scary features of Caller ID, computer cookies tracking, store cashiers demanding phone & zip code numbers, who-knows-what magnetic strips on swiping machines, and cameras all over town and inside buildings.

Just a couple of weeks before the SNOWDEN story broke, I asked here at "Ask the Administrators" about my periodic unease that all our personal revelations at this website were out there forever for some geek to trace back.

Not even the "demand to think unilaterally" is new here, or the flaming and name-calling and bullying and the apparently non-conscious anti-democratic rhetoric: That disagreement, opposing opinions, freedom of thought and speech and association are not to be tolerated and are to be shut down in the name of Authoritarianism from the Left Side.

Those name-calling "authoritarians" are being it themselves --- and to make this point I am dragging myself into their same name-calling. Forever here, the CHAVISTAS in LBN and a couple of other factions within our Democratic coalition have been lashing out with the same techniques of flaming and bullying. Only the names of the protagonists in the news have changed.

My bottom line: SNOWDEN and GREENWALD are weak reeds for my own idealism.

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[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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