Quite a leap for this dude, who is part of a huge National Security machine to be arrogant enough to think he's speaking for the integrity of the whole entity. Having seen what the IRS was just doing to targeted citizens (forget the party affiliation for the moment, they were _citizens_ vs. the Federal govt), and the NSA giving info to the DEA, that's all that needs to be said. Today and maybe forever they don't care about your call to Aunt Ethyl. But maybe Aunt Ethyl is in the Tea Party, or she's in Detroit, 2x degrees of separation from a Kuwaiti "person of interest" in her neighborhood. Suddenly you and she are a few notches higher on the "pay attention to" scale, no longer about metadata, but the whole enchilada.
we're only a ~250 yr old country and we're already forgetting where we came from. We're supposed to remain skeptical of our government and it is supposed to know and EXPECT that, as it is made up of...us. It would be nice to see that recognition from the govt and rather than saying "trust us", say, "your skepticism is the best thing about this debate and the govt needs to back off a bit".
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we're supposed to be skeptical of the government
we're only a ~250 yr old country and we're already forgetting where we came from. We're supposed to remain skeptical of our government and it is supposed to know and EXPECT that, as it is made up of...us. It would be nice to see that recognition from the govt and rather than saying "trust us", say, "your skepticism is the best thing about this debate and the govt needs to back off a bit".
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