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In reply to the discussion: Snowden: Has your non-support or support of Snowden changed over time? [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)It seems that the names I recognize here from previous issues fall very much where I would have expected on their opinions regarding Snowden.
Government is an extremely powerful tool that society uses , in my too often painful experience with tools I've discovered that the more powerful the tool the more judiciously and cautiously you should use it. It's one thing to smack your thumb with a framing hammer, it's entirely another to drive a nail through your kneecap with a nail gun.
Government at its best can help you if you need help and mercy knows there's enough of us that need a little help these days.
Unfortunately government isn't always at its best as we can see here on DU every single day we log on.
I don't think it's that power corrupts so much as it is that power is magnetically attractive to the corruptible, that isn't going to change any time soon.
It's a problem that's so old it has a phrase that was ancient when Juvenal wrote it down.
Who will watch the watchers of the watchers and then who will watch those watchers ad infinitum?
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