Here's why the Snowden imbroglio makes no sense:

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Why are so many here on DU so comfortable in defending the unconstitutional hoovering of all of our electronic/digital data, that is being put into mega-data bases for computer automated combing for patterns to find anyone that may be possibly controlled (read blackmailed) for their nefarious own use, authorized by secret courts, with secret warrants, operating under secret laws, these secret courts pass, in violation of the US Constitution? And anyone that exposes these unconstitutional operations being subject to being imprisoned for life, hung and/or shot on sight. Trial not necessarily being necessary.

Has our Constitution been secretly amended to add secret amendments, that we cannot be allowed to know about because they have to do with national security? Why else can all this domestic spying be defended? Has the 4th Amendment been rescinded? If not, that alone makes this data hoovering unconstitutional.

As someone that has been here almost form the beginning, what has Democratic Underground become? We are a far cry from the reason for our roots.