FM of Venezuela says no reply from Snowden...

[allin99]

53. i get the feeling if he's dead...

it will be so dark that i think people will stay away from the issue. Not the people are are really anti extended surveillance. i mean the fence sitters or the more quietly approving types. It gives you that dark feeling that makes you want to just forget it and shut your mouth.

If he's dead, the pro nsa people here will be happy and it will be easier for them to claim some sort of victory, and squash any idea of civil liberties and the nsa, while the anti-nsa'ers here will probably stick with the aclu and keep up the argument. but i wonder in the public. i think it's better if he lives.

i'm hoping it's only the dems here that are more pro surveillance than against. i went to a fundraiser last night for a dem candidate, people wren't really talking about it b/c it's sort of taboo at the moment among gov't officials. Although it was a liberal candidate, so no doubt were we have talked about it i'm sure they would be more pro aclu argument. I only deal with liberal dems for the most part though, so i don't know about this anti aclu shit. lol. But with the public,i think the darkness would have an effect. And not a good one. (well, not good for the anti extended surveillance crowd)

(on a personal level, i would find it quite sad, esp. because i'm glad that he forced clapper to come out, and he forced the conversation in the public in general). And personally, i'd much rather root for him than the U.S. gov't storing all my data (METADATA), etc.