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In reply to the discussion: Re: Attacks on Snowden, Greenwald. How the fuck do people like that sleep at night? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)government (WHICH DOES NOT EXIST -- READ THE CONSTITUTION). It has to do with protecting MY AND YOUR right to privacy. You and I hand out our Social Security numbers repeatedly. They belong to us. They do not belong to the government. The restraint on the government's ability to publicize our Social Security numbers is due to the underlying fact that those numbers belong to us, not to the government.
Sorry about the caps. I am so shocked at how little is understood on this, and it is by no means, just you. I am just horrified. This hurts me and makes me feel like crying. Americans neither understand nor appreciate the freedom we are assured under our Constitution. I wonder how this brainwashing has taken place. It is tragic. It will be the end of our representative democracy. How tragic that people can relinquish their innate rights so flippantly.