Glen Contrarian
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Then you are an authoritarian person who hates civil and human rights, as simple as that.
This "national security" nonsense to justify the most blatant violations of Western values is right from the Nazis' playbook, and people who swallow it will swallow it in any random other case of violation too. And no, this is not godwinning anything. In this case, it is 100% true and absolutely appropriate.
A government that will break the law to spy on the private communication of its citizens will randomly arrest people too, will deny their people fair trials, will enact labor and death camps too -- unless the people stops them. And no, "fighting a foreign enemy" is no excuse (it wasn't valid either when the Nazis used that in 1933).
Read my FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE in #46 above - PRISM, had it been in place in 2000, could have prevented 9/11 and all the American insanity that resulted from it - including our illegal and unprovoked invasion of Iraq.