Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn

Re:Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Mo... by AnkhMorporkian on Monday April 06, 2015 @04:23PM (#9330505)

I'm not the one turning this into an us vs. them thing, I think reforms need to be made. I think that many of the things released have already far exceeded the scope of constitutional abuses, and there's no reason to believe there aren't more of them in the pipeline.

If you want change, it might be best not to alienate the 45% of Americans who believe that Snowden went too far or the 56% who believe that he should be charged. The NSA and Snowden issues are two separate things that are linked by a common thread.

I believe the NSA is abusing its power and needs to be changed. I also believe Snowden released vast amounts of classified data, not all of it in a legitimate whistleblower role. If that makes me a bad person who is engaging in misinformation somehow, so be it. I'm willing to accept that other people believe differently, and I believe that people should extend that courtesy to others instead of insulting them.

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Re:Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Mo... by Semiapies on Monday April 06, 2015 @06:04PM (#9330959)

"I think that many of the things released have already far exceeded the scope of constitutional abuses"

And yet, you're here going on about how the real problem is what Snowden did, not the NSA. I see nothing in what you're saying that's distinguishable from concern-trolling.

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