2013-08-30, 04:20 AM
Stereo Wrote: At least Snowden's leaking it to Americans, not just the enemies of the state...
As far as I'm concerned, your enemies knowing your priorities is one of the prices of being a free country. A secret government agency with no oversight by the people and free reign to write its own rules is a recipe for the most horrendous crimes against humanity we have on record. We know they're imprisoning people with no trial. We know they're torturing people. How is it in any way alright to let them keep the rest of their activities a secret?
Frankly your attitude towards Snowden terrifies me. If you give up on freedom this quickly, are you even going to notice when all your rights have been taken away in the name of security?
So, because he's leaking it to Americans, it's OK that he's also leaking it to everybody else? Sensitive data is just that. Some information the public isn't meant to know. As much as I dislike not knowing something, I'd rather pass on it than put millions of people at risk for some only moderately useful (or even interesting) information. Millions of dollars is no longer a very large amount when our debt is 5-6 digits higher than that. If it were tens of billions, I might see the usefulness of this information IN THE PROPER CHANNELS, with details that completely compromise our national security structure left out for the general public.
Telling EVERYONE all of our weakpoints when we are the world's number one superpower is absurd, and the best way to quickly and destructively remove us from that. Isn't that the very definition of traitorous?