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[karynnj]

58. To all Snowden sycophants, shop displaying your hatred of government for 2 minutes

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1) Arguing that Snowden broke the law is NOT hatred of Snowden
2) Arguing that releasing classified information that explicitly details how the US looks for terrorists before they attack is not good, These issues have been argued in Congress and the basic outline was known and passed by Congress. If you think it unconstitutional, form an organisation and take it to court,
3) Remember that he did not stop at speaking of the surveillance programs, He went to China and then Russia taking 4 laptops with what he said were volumes of classified information. This is an action that is incredibly reckless. Note that his mentor Greenwald speaks of the content of that being something that could hurt the US more than any release of classified information in the past.
4) JUST from what he has released has harmed Obama and his worldwide diplomatic initatives - maybe especially a just started effort to get agreement with China on intellectual property rights and hackiing.

I do not "hate" Snowden, I think he is a very arrogant, naive person, with enormous skill in ONE area - computers. He is harming the Democratic party - and aiding the RW Paul faction. I don't see how this helps the country in any way. As to the issues, every time FISA and other things have come up, the law has been modified to add restraints. Wyden and others are FAR better heroes on this issue than Snowden, who did not bother to go to Wyden -- or even Rand Paul!
This is an issue that could be addressed within the government.