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In reply to the discussion: The Snowdon Controversy on DU [View all]truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...a lot of folks that were on the cusp have now been put on fully ignore over the last few days...there is no way you can be a progressive liberal democrat and agree that losing "a little bit of privacy" is okay if the government promises that it's only in order to "keep you safe"...
This topic falls squarely under the Einstein quote about simultaneously preventing and preparing for war..You are either free, or you aren't. The 4th Amendment applies, or it doesn't. There is no middle ground.
DU has become a place full of surveillance-state apologists and paid shills trying to shout down the objections of the rest of us, because it's "our" guy in the WH, without apparent care that one day it might be President Cruz, or Rubio that they've demolished the Constitution for..