re: #128 jfrentzen

It is pretty depressing to see LGF taking this line and taking part in character assassination of the whistleblower. I often enjoy reading LGF posts skewering wingnuts and whackadoos like Geller et al, but this is sad.

This guy Snowden and Greenwald have exposed the fact that the government is building a massive database filled with info on all our phone calls and such, and LGF is attacking them.

Don’t tell us! We don’t want to know how much the government is snooping on us! The government has a right to know everything we do and we don’t have any right to know about anything they do! As it should be….

Really weird.

Hopefully this will help inspire the kind of debate Snowden hopes it will, and we can start talking about rolling back some of the post-9-11 excesses of the surveillance state. But no, we shouldn’t be having that debate. Instead we should apparently be speculating about this guy’s salary or whether he likes Ron Paul, and suggesting he’s a coward for not volunteering to spend the rest of his life in a prison cell for telling us what the government is secretly doing to all of us.

We don’t want to know you traitor! Sheesh.