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In reply to the discussion: Snowden: I Raised NSA Concerns Internally Over 10 Times Before Going Rogue - WaPo [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)But, I find that speculating in a post about motives of posters tends to lead nowhere good.
I don't like it when people do it about my posts. I usually think the things they attribute to me are off the wall, too. But, once they say it, it's written in stone and there is no use pointing out that I know me and my motives a hell of a lot better than they do. I think it's probably like that for all of us.
But, I suppose the standard answer here might be deflection. As long as we are talking about how Snowden is so awful and has to provide documentation (to whom, why?), we're not talking about shredding of the Constitution or anything else the USG has been doing lately. If that is spurring everyone here against Snowden, I'd be surprised.
If you think back, the whole birther stuff was most incessant during Obama's first years in office. I wonder if that was to take the focus of the right off the possible benefits of a national health care plan? Dunno. Could have been simply to play on the xenophobia of the right.