Snowden attorney speaks for Rand Paul, Lyndon LaRouche, and the 4th amendment

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40. I'm not looking for anything, honestly

I'm just sharing Cali's opinion that this is "incredibly lame" - though I would have phrased it as "fucking stupid," Cali's a little more polite than I am usually.

Seriously, you're touting the fact that Snowden's attorney was a speaker at a LaRouche event as evidence of... of... something? As far as I can figure it's some weird, hare-brained idea that Snowden's leaking is going to give us a president LaRouche, and then oh boy won't we all feel silly for worrying about the fourth amendment then. You throw Palin and Paul in there too... what, couldn't shoehorn Buchanan's pork-flavored behind in there also?

What it looks like to me is that you're trying to frame anyone who's put-off by the violation of the fourth amendment evidenced by out government's massive domestic surveillance, is a closet supporter of these politicians you named (I use the term "politician" under advisement in some of those cases.) That is, it's not that you're particularly concerned with these dire outcomes you predict - likely you don't buy into any of that garbage. You're just trying to shut up people whose opinions you don't like.

As for your argument that the president isn't reading my mail? Probably not, you're right... but that's not the point, and if that's your best argument, "oh, they don't actually read everything they collect," well, you don't have an argument worth making. The point is it should not be getting collected at all.