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Tuesday Toon Roundup 4- RIP (Original Post)
n2doc
Jul 2013
OP
Right, because there is no difference between fighting fires and the NSA reading your e-mail.
Electric Monk
Jul 2013
#6
Especially for that first one. A nice "Fuck you, Ronald Reagan!", IMHO.
kentuck
(111,106 posts)2. A picture can say a thousand words.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)13. these two really got me sobbing.
this world...it's too unfair.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)14. Me too! Times nineteen!
baldguy
(36,649 posts)3. But today we have people on DU screaming "DON'T TRUST THE GOVT!"
K&R
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)6. Right, because there is no difference between fighting fires and the NSA reading your e-mail.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)7. That's what Snowden thinks.
rwsanders
(2,606 posts)10. There really are 2 governments there...
I've been in meetings where everyone was terrified to make anyone upset, so that little got done and everyone was upset, and the agency I work for constantly skates by on the "underfunded, understaffed" excuse for all their missteps.
Yet groups like the NSA seem set on terrorizing everyone.
TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)11. Big difference between VOLUNTEERS who put their own lives...
...on the line to serve their fellow man, and people operating in secret, telling us we don't need to know what they are up to, despite the fact that everything we've been able to discover indicates that what they are up to serves the common man not at all.
malthaussen
(17,209 posts)5. Oh, Stiglich's is just fucking awesome. n/t
All of these ought to bring some water to the eyes.
-- Mal
Gothmog
(145,424 posts)8. Thank you for the Cartoons
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)9. So many good ones.
Heart rending. Thank you.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)12. Oh those made me cry