Even better is the assured rapid delivery of praise and defense of Snowden's treachery against the US and its allies. We never have long to wait for that. I see you're a fan.

I'm curious, if ISIS sends suicide bombers to the shopping mall where your family goes, and they succeeded in killing hundreds due to Snowden showing them how to avoid surveillance, will you still be a fan?

No, this is like the team water boy stealing the team's playbook and scouting reports, moving to the arch rival's town, and having it published in the town papers of all of the team's opponents, along with secret routes into the local malls that extremists would like to use to drop a bomb or two among the shoppers.

You're in over your head on the legality of this. Congress, the executive branch, and the courts have repeatedly authorized and supported the NSA actions.

Here's a Pro Tip for you: As a practical matter people in other countries don't like NSA spying on what goes on in their country (even when they are a haven for terrorists and extremists), few of them really care much at all about NSA spying on Americans.

The uproar in other countries is the natural result of Snowden revealing NSA operations in those countires, not in the US.

You don't seem to have any understanding of the operation of what is known as "representative government."

I think it's pretty unlikely a Western government will steal the identy of one of its citizens and drain their bank account. I wouldn't put that past China and its armies of hackers. If you live in the US or various other countries the Chinese also have nuclear weapons aimed at you. I doubt any nuclear armed Western nation will nuke its own cities or people. If you are traveling in China it doesn't take that much for them to throw you in jail. Give it a try some time. Why not go demonstate on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square? Will the Chinese government protect you from a bomb at your local shopping mall? Probably not. The US government will. Will the US government steal the industrial secrets of an American company and set up a competing company that will put you out of work? The Chinese goverment will. You make a lot of bad choices I think.

So, what is it you suggest instead? Buying from and trusting your country? Which one is it? What country is both so trustworthy that we should believe the rants of ACs and is also able to manufacture enough to meet the demand for goods across the whole world?

People should be equally wary of stupid crap like you posted.

Since the US currently isn't ruled by Sunni clerics according to Sharia law, and you haven't been put in orange coveralls, placed in a cage, and then burned alive, I'm pretty sure the terrorists haven't won.

Civil liberties in the US are in good shape overall. You don't know what you are talking about.

Who will take "credit"? Try "none of them." The very idea is absurd. Who is it that you think had a running campaign to try to get Stewart removed ... from another network .... from a highly rated show? I can't imagine what would fill your head with such a bizzare idea.

Stewar made pretty much everybody look like a buffoon at some point, including Democrats and President Obama. (I'm sure you have no recollection of his treatment of the entire Democratic party of South Carolina after the Alvin Green debacle - Alvin Greene Wins South Carolina Primary) The problem with Stewart is he isn't all that even handed.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Before you banish them, perhaps you can explain how you expect to remain free? I'm quite certain that snark and contempt are not sufficient.

It certainly helped reduce the spread of Soviet communism, and therefore Soviet concentration camps. Very few people were comfortable in those.

Try again.

The only true part of that post.

In order to stand against evil you generally must be able to identify it. You seldom succeed in this since you are generally anti-American and substitute America for evil while either ignoring actual evil or claiming it wouldn't exist if not for America. That isn't a recipe for successful stands against evil. It's almost the opposite.

Oh, there is more to it than that. Canning was a vital element of Napoleon's war machine.

Why Napoleon Offered A Prize For Inventing Canned Food

How many of those cogs of a war machine do you have at the moment? Shouldn't you rid yourself of them for the sake of purity so you don't feel compelled to hold yourself in contempt?

So you did nothting to help the West defend itself or to defeat Soviet and Nazi power? And you think that is a good thing?

Pride in poor judgment is it?