So your word is gospel, huh?
NSA director James Flapper was asked point-blank by Congress if his agency was doing surveillance on American citizens and he lied by saying ‘ No.’
Like Slick Clinton unaware of the existence of the blue dress, Flapper didn’t know that Snowden was about to blow the whistle on his lie.
You like being lied to by your government and spied upon, in violation of the 4th amendment?
In talking about totalitarian governments, Orwell spent considerable time talking about people who “said in their own subjugation and relish the subjugation of others.”
Might that be you he was talking about?
you’re right, you have nothing to say. all you can do is throw around a word - “traitor” - but you are unable to explain or justify it. like a kid who has a big new word he likes to use, but doesn’t understand.
“Snowden is a TRAITOR. If you libertarian idiots cant grasp that simple fact I have nothing to say..other than stop calling yourselves Conservatives..”
Well, that accusation is totally a matter of perspective.
In a well oiled US government, without worry of constitutional rewriting to fit the situation, I would say probably so. But today is not that day.
There is a phrase used in every language, in every era and every country where a political revolution is in the making for just cause.
I’ll paraphrase as best I can. But it’s been said in many different ways, all with the same meaning and intent.
“When dictatorship is a fact revolution is a duty.”
A traitor is defined as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Snowden revealed to the people what the NSA has been doing. If the people are the enemy, I guess that makes him a traitor... But that also means the government is our enemy, because the enemy of our enemy is our friend. You can’t have it both ways.
I don’t think you know what “Conservative” means.
Conservative: Constitutionally bound Federal government limited to enumerated powers. Powerful individuals, Sovereign States, decentralized power.
That’s conservative. That includes a Bill of Rights and the 4th Amendment. In case you have not heard, the Fed ignores that nasty 4th Amendment. Ignores and finds plausible work arounds.
You should take a course in debating. It's about convincingly making your argument the most logical and salient, not brutalizing opposing opinions and exposing your weakness for logical discourse .
Your opinion is like an anus, everyone has one and thinks theirs smells best.
From your own home page:
“I am an American first and a conservative second. I have no use for either political party, or those who hate this great country whether they be on the left or right.”
Looks like Snowden and I go for American first, you might want to change your statement. Appears you have your order reversed.
Is it treason to expose treason?
If NSA were stuffing people in concentration camps, and Snowden stole and published documents proving it, he would have betrayed the Regime but NOT committed Treason b/c it’s NOT LAWFUL to stuff people in concentration camps.
Was the exposure of Carnivore unAmerican and was that person a traitor?
With all due respect, please go pound sand.
Snowden has done this country a great service by exposing how our government is monitoring us in unconstitutional fashion.