function furtherAndMoreInvasiveSurveillanceIsJustified () {
    return true;
}
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From mere curiosity - who here would feel better about the situation if the government just explicitly avoided all the weasel-words and came out to say "we've rigged the whole system, you're fucking with our corruption/lies and now we're gonna screw you big-time in a way that you have no chance of escaping" ?

Much as I disagree with the multi-level corruption, what else could they do?

The premises of the system should be self-supporting; to allow otherwise would allow the validity of the whole system to be put in doubt. Noone wants the current system to be replaced by something better; do they?

You might have noticed that *noone* cares to think about, less-still legislate on the topic of what is right.

Shame on you for even implying that they should.

Regardless of your tinfoil suit there is no documented case of where the spying the NSA did has had a negative effect on the citizens of the USA.

You know, you're right. Please paste a link to your personal channel of the Panopticon - oh, and ensure to have your walls replaced by glass toute-de-suite

Synesthesia much?

then you really have to wonder if the Presidency isn't being completely controlled by someone else.

Uhh, I'm no student of history but didn't this understanding come about at about the same time the assassinations stopped? I do actually live under a rock so I've probably missed the historical-rewrite on this one (as I did with the one about how GeeDubYah wasn't actually elected.)

It cannot rationally be illegal to 'out' the government's own violations of the law.

Uhh, it can - the government makes its own laws. It's a basic premise of the system: 'we are *always* in the right.'

Don't seem so surprised. These government systems evolved out of a barbarism dominated by 'might is right'.

They're local-minima / stable states on the way to something better.

Are you aware of any evidence he every sold any secrets? I am not.

Of course they're not. It's US government shilling.

Did Fox buy slashdot already?

If he comes back to the US, he'll probably "commit suicide" in prison awaiting trial.

I didn't realize that Snowden was black! wth?

Where are the feds going to find 12 whistle blower heroes?

In a shallow grave?

ProTip: If I go missing, you'll know it was a mistake to type this :S

Now we know where to sit when we're feeling undercooked :D

I stand corrected lol :D