This was a comment made privately by a friend of mine:
If Glenn Greenwald says the sky is blue, my first instinct is to wonder how I could have always been so wrong about the color of the sky, and the second is to wonder how the sky being blue is detrimental to the interests of America.
…and that’s pretty much it. To paraphrase/mangle Harry Turtledove: activists on the Right tend to believe that America is damaged, and needs to be repaired; while activists on the Left tend to believe that America is wrecked, and needs to be replaced. Greenwald definitely wants to switch out wholesale our current system, and I am not entirely certain that he wouldn’t be happy to see half of the people that I follow on Twitter end up in a camp somewhere. Trust him at your peril.
Mind you, PRISM may turn out to be a real problem. In which case, the intelligent response is to emulate the example of the brilliant A Christmas Story and do this to Greenwald:
…then, go on your merry way.
Greenwald let one out of the bag. He’s been working with Snowden since Feburary. At that time, Snowden haven’t began to work for Booz-Allan yet. Which means he was for all intent and purpose, a plant.
This Snowden dude reminds me of someone…
I thought more this:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtILxBszyf8
Anything that makes Obama look that self-satisfied should unnerve everyone.
Everyone.
I discovered, a while back, that one of my personal pet peeves found strong defenders in the likes of Mother Jones and Ezra Klein. I took a few moments to rethink my position before returning to my original conclusion. Didn’t change my mind, but it sure makes me uneasy.
I’ve felt the same way on the rare occasion when I agree with the ACLU. It’s deeply disturbing.