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In reply to the discussion: Rolling Stone: How two alienated, angry geeks broke the story of the year [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)certainly would want to alienate themselves from the enormous corruption we have witnessed over the past decade or so.
Maybe if we had seen some investigations of War Criminals eg, rather than the persecution of those who reported them, or of Wall St Criminals, rather than the American People being forced to save their rear ends, people would have more faith in the fact that the Government too, was rightfully angry to see such massive crimes being committed on the pretext of 'fighting terror'. Especially since we are told, see Feinstein, that we are in MORE danger now than ever and must continue this phony 'WOT'. Of course it is an incredibly profitable 'war' for a few privileged and protected individuals.
Seeing the single digit approval ratings for Congress and the over 50% ratings for Whistle Blower, Snowden with the public approving of being informed of what their government is up to, the People, who are supposed to be considered in the running of their government, have spoken.
I'm happy to have the information we have been provided with by Whistle Blowers, and deeply concerned that there are no investigations of the CRIMES, which in any decent Democracy would have happened long ago, but rather an attempt to demonize those with the courage to inform the people of how their tax dollars are being spent. That SHOULD be Congress' job. But clearly only a tiny fraction of that branch of government can be depended on to do so.
Anger is an appropriate reaction to massive crimes. Dismissing the hundreds of thousands of deaths of human beings for political reasons is extremely inappropriate. Dismissing the deliberate crimes that led to the collapse of the world's economies, the destruction of millions of lives, and the profiteering that caused it, is an extremely inappropriate reaction to such a massive crime.