TOON: Lemont explains the NSA/privacy issue....

[Hekate]

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[delrem]

1. excellent!

Regulations should exist that forbid such conditions. For the national good.
That's a first step. But oh, that train did leave the station...

[Cha]

2. Shhh, Hekate.. it's all about

greenwald and snowden and their nasty NSA expose. those other facts are just a distraction from the real issue of ..Books to sell, Russian Asylum to procure.. before that sweet deal with.. is it Venezuela now?

"It's all Obama's fault!!!!1111".. "NSA started spying on Russia and China in 2009" Bad Obama Bad USA. Good on mother Russia.. yeah that goes down as fucking hyporcrisy which so many are more than willing to swallow.

[burrowowl]

3. Good ONE!

[daleanime]

4. ........

[Hekate]

5. Candorville is a great Toon. I hope your newspapers carry it.

[Pholus]

6. The tone of the cartoon is all too familiar...

just simple resignation that we have obviously and happily allowed ourselves to get screwed again. Some here are positively giddy at that prospect, but personally I am merely anticipating the abuses that are sure to follow.

[n2doc]

7. Again, just because some people choose to let it all hang out

Doesn't mean that the rest of us should be forced to do so. Loss of privacy, and constant watching behind our backs, is not something to be praised.

[Hekate]

8. Pointing it out is not "praising" it

Pointing it out like this is saying "Pay attention."

I've been trying to get the hysterics here to pay attention to this side of the issue ever since Snowden upped stakes and ran away.

The people who want to say the real story is the NSA are only partially right -- because Snowden and Greenwald made the public narrative all about them in a spectacular display of ego.

I'm one of the few people here who, despite indulging in some early speculation about Snowden's psychology, neither demonized nor lionized him.

What I have found even weirder than Snowden has been the psychology of those who absolutely utterly will not even look at the issue Darrin Bell, in the person of his Everyman Lemont, has raised: the loss of personal privacy that the general public has invited, has embraced, has celebrated, and indeed has paid good money for.

No one seems to want to analyze how this phenomenon has undercut and subverted the righteousness of the outrage over whateverthehell the NSA actually is or is not doing.