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In reply to the discussion: EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE of a discussion instigated regarding Greenwald's character [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)anyway. Because one of our big issues is human rights, and the surveillance by the NSA of innocent people is an invasion of a number of basic human rights like the freedom to speak without the government repressing your speech by keeping a record of every little thing you say via electronic media so that it can bring it out of cold storage and use it against you when it wants to.
And that is what is most likely really behind the NSA surveillance.
The NSA surveillance is likely to hamper people's freedom to vote or to exchange information meaningfully.
Our Bill of Rights is the blueprint of our democracy. The NSA has destroyed its foundation by doing away with our privacy. The sum total of the Bill of Rights is a guarantee of liberty and essential to that guarantee is the right to privacy that is protected by the concert of each individual right listed there. The NSA has chipped away and is chipping away at our most precious right to privacy.
Personalities and political parties are of little importance when you have no right to privacy.
Greenwald and Snowden are not the story. The story is the attack on our fundamental right to privacy and the rights that, together, insure that most fundamental right.