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In reply to the discussion: I am getting the odd sense that some don't like Snowden because he made the establishment look bad [View all]jazzimov
(1,456 posts)because it is totally WRONG, and indicates a predilection on your part.
If you actually read the documents "leaked" by Snowden as presented by Greenwald, you will find that the documents directly contradict everything that Greenwald claims that Snowden said - and Snowden doesn't contradict Greenwald.
This is not a "personal smear" against either of them - this is merely Journalism in it's rawest form. Whenever anyone is confronted with accusations, it is incumbent upon us to take both the accusation as well as the evidence apart to see if the evidence supports the accusations. In this case, the evidence presented directly contradicts the accusations made.
HOWEVER, we should have the discussion about "national security" again. Although the current has done nothing wrong legally, perhaps ii is time to relax the laws regarding surveillance and increase the laws protecting personal freedoms.
Although we - ALL of us - should understand exactly what our "personal freedoms" are.
And in the process please stop all this "Obama = Bush" nonsense. As John Lennon said in his song "Revolution";
"And if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
Nobody's gonna vote for you anyhow...."