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(4,835 posts)There's that exact leap of logic that I'm talking about.
Snowden handled it wrong <> supporting the Security State.
Just because a person believes that Snowden should have handled it differently doesn't mean that the person critical of Snowden supports the spying. I disapprove of Snowden's actions because supporting it is encouraging anarchy. We are still a nation of laws. Those high ranking individuals (like Jimmy Carter) who believe he did the right thing - also believe he needs to face the charges. Unless he comes back and tells his side of the story - he's just a guy who tucked some classified information under his arm and fled to asylum in another country.
It's an empty act without him returning to face the charges. I'd like to see them shift a whole bunch of the 'spy apparatus' spending over to public works projects, that makes me exactly the opposite of a libertarian - they believe we need to dismantle the 'spy apparatus', then dismantle FEMA, then dismantle the EPA, then eliminate the Department of Education.
That's what libertarians are looking for - then we can cut the Koch brothers taxes.