re: #293 triple

Well, it’s more apt than you might think.

Dark knight, batman has this massive cell phone spying operation. He NEEDS it to find the joker, and he does.

Morgan Freeman wants nothing to do with it, but says he’ll do it to help stop the threat.

Batman says okay, and after he catches the joker - does he use the massive cellphone database to fight more crime in gotham? No. He destroys the machine. Because it’s the right thing to do.

So yeah, he’s basically batman.

I stand by it.

So you believe that the threat is over, the US has no enemies, and the NSA can be dismantled because it no longer serves a purpose?

Or is it simply that saying you now have principles means you feel you’ve changed from the naive little boy you were on 9/11? Let you in on a secret: I was 16 in 2001. Both my parents were active Navy and I’ve since had cousins who signed up to fight “over there.” The difference between who I was and who I am is that I grew the fuck up.