Here Is Edward Snowden's Christmas Message

[stupidicus]

59. loyalty to ignorance is pitiable

or in the alternative, service to dishonesty is abominable, whether intentional or not.

I want to see him in prison for putting down our country and creating such a fuss over nothing,

If "putting down our country" alone is sufficient to justify incarceration, maybe we shoulda started that practice with MLK and ended it with Reverend "God Damn America!" Wright.

And I suppose it will have to remain a mystery as to why a judge would declare some NSA efforts unconstitutional, and BHO's own panel would call for changes, "over nothing".

Consider the events of the last two weeks. Judge Richard Leon of the District Court for the District of Columbia, a Republican appointee, held that the National Security Agency’s massive metadata-collection program “likely” violates the Fourth Amendment. (To my students: In the procedural posture of this case, “likely violates” is a lawyer’s code word for “@#$%ing-A right it violates!”) A few days later, the president’s advisory board recommended significant reforms to the extent and structure of the same programs. The tech sector, civil libertarians, a Republican judge, America’s foreign allies, and, I suspect, the vast majority of the American people, now agree that government surveillance has overreached. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/how-obama-can-save-his-legacy-by-reining-in-the-security-state/282568/

As I've noted and argued from the beginning of all this, none of the attacking the messenger efforts are gone erase BHO's slate in terms of his role and responsibility in this matter, but I do find it highly amusing that all those shrieking "absurd!!!" etc, here in this thread were the very same ones who mounted absurdly silly defenses of this from the beginning, the attacks on ES included.

The "over nothing" is hands down the most absurd of the defenses offered, and most refuted at this point, and should rightly serve as an accurate measure of the intelligence and integrity of those still clinging to it.