Snowden Is No Traitor. What He EXPOSED Is What's TREASON.

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10. Huge K&R. Thank you. This is self-evident,

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the constant drumbeat of smearing, distracting propaganda notwithstanding.

There is no more serious and dangerous lawbreaking than government abuse of power, simply because of the dread power of governments.

What we are witnessing is an orchestrated campaign of propaganda to smear Snowden and distract from the enormity of the abuse he has revealed. And there is an especially sinister aspect to the propaganda trying to drum up hatred of Snowden, a la Goldstein in 1984, so as to justify whatever this government decides to do to him.

Remember that Daniel Ellsberg was released on bond in 1971 after releasing the Pentagon Papers. Even members of the propaganda brigade realize that that would never, ever happen now. Not today. Not under this government. I had a defender tell me that she *doubted* he'd be tortured if he returned. That was supposed to be an argument of reason: that she DOUBTED he'd be tortured...in the United States of America. Recent whistleblowers have been ruthlessly and summarily silenced: thrown into prison and denied contact with family, put in solitary for weeks at a time, even before being convicted. Bradley Manning sleeps naked, without sheets, in a cell. This is the United States of America.

This is how openly sick and tyrannical the American government has become. This is how sick the debate has become, with the constant drumbeat of propaganda normalizing what should be unconscionable in the United States of America.

Look what this government has become, just since 1971.

Mass surveillance of citizens, by our own government, in the United States of America. Assaults on peaceful protesters. Assaults on the press. Persecution of whistleblowers.

A major goal of the constant, drumbeat of propaganda, the bids for calm and "reasonable" discussion of the unconscionable, is to *normalize* the unconscionable.

No, legalizing mass surveillance of American citizens is not reasonable by any stretch of the imagination. It is authoritarianism subverting democracy. It is tyranny.

The talking points are insidious and despicable in their attempted legalese that discounts both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution upon which this country was founded. It is rank authoritarianism, and it must be called out for the despicable propaganda it is.