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In reply to the discussion: Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald address US campaigners via video [View all]Aerows
(39,961 posts)38. I don't if he donated to Adolf Hitler
Stalin, and Paul Ryan. None of that sideline information makes his revelations less damaging.
It doesn't.
You can sing all day about Rand Paul and every evil person on earth. The world wasn't shocked when a person revealed torture by those that killed Emmet Till were black, white or associated with a church. No, they simply spoke up.
Continue with this line of thought. I can continue all day why guilt by association fails.
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Tierra_y_Libertad
Apr 2014
#1
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George II
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ChisolmTrailDem
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#51
Thank you for your service and for trying to get this place back the way it was back
ChisolmTrailDem
Apr 2014
#55
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Apr 2014
#24
Yes. What the NSA is doing violates the Constitution, several amendments to the Constitution
JDPriestly
Apr 2014
#29