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In reply to the discussion: I am getting the odd sense that some don't like Snowden because he made the establishment look bad [View all]mbperrin
(7,672 posts)every three years from SMOKING?
50,000 a year killed by drunk drivers.
And so on.
If we gave an actual damn about American citizens and their lives, we'd get drunks off the road and tobacco off the market. But nope.
So please stop waving the bloody shirt about these occasional events that are statistical outliers. No one, government or otherwise, can stop a lone wolf like McVeigh. Period.
Meanwhile, the government is busy with a war on women, on minority voters, on Social Security, and I can't complain about that?
Jefferson was one of the founders of the current government, and he advocated revolution whenever a government becomes oppressive. He said it was the DUTY of the people to change any government, by force is need be, when it treads on the rights of the people. Guess what? As a slave owner, he wasn't exactly a perfect person, either. But his actions are what counted in forming the government. Snowden's actions count now.
If the answer is we can't criticize or expose moral wrongs committed by the government, what was the question?