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In reply to the discussion: If you take the Ferguson cops and DA side, don't ever complain about the NSA or Snowden ever again. [View all]The Traveler
(5,632 posts)10. Agree ... but you make a false attribution
Sure, there are Libertarians who oppose the NSA and support Snowden. Said opposition and support is neither required of nor unique to Libertarians. Indeed, many hard core progressives and lefties oppose the NSA and support Snowden. I am merely one of them.
So while your statement is true, it suggests a false attribution. You attribute opposition to the national security state to Libertarianism.
That being said, I don't see how you can coherently oppose the security state while giving cover to extra-judicial street executions of the sort becoming far too common in this country and thus agree with your post, with the exception noted above.
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If you take the Ferguson cops and DA side, don't ever complain about the NSA or Snowden ever again. [View all]
Yavin4
Nov 2014
OP
They have been making it all about them. And I was glad to see some folks call them out on their
Number23
Nov 2014
#50
To my mind the John Crawford killing was even more egregious than the Brown killing
Fumesucker
Nov 2014
#7
They're only "jack-booted government thugs" when they're mean to white people n/t
arcane1
Nov 2014
#8
You will know the corporate Third Way by their refusal to demand real change here.
woo me with science
Nov 2014
#11
There is a whole bunch of shit that I care about that doesn't personally effect me
JonLP24
Nov 2014
#37
This is why many of us people of color here on DU go after others who slam Obama over NSA shit
Liberal_Stalwart71
Nov 2014
#27
Oh, they comment all right. But only so far as they can blame the Third Way/Obama/Holder etc.
Number23
Nov 2014
#53
Fair enough though it seems to me that at least here that it is members of the status quo caucus
TheKentuckian
Nov 2014
#42