BREAKING: Federal judge rules NSA data gathering on all US telephone calls is unconstitutional

[ConservativeDemocrat]

147. I admire your silly extremist rhetoric...

...calling the U.S. "Authoritarian". It is most entertaining, in a sick sort of way. But it does make me feel happy to know that I am in the correct party, given that disassociative personalities are confined to the extreme edges of the Democratic party writing on a website, rather than being front and center as they are with the Republicans.

We are not in a "WAR" with the 1%. And you don't speak for the "99%". Hell, if you actually spoke for 99% of the U.S. public outside of your own little delusions, the 1% would not have the power they do. Instead of war, what we have right now is an econo-social problem where many of the world's poor are being able to compete, tilting the playing field against the U.S. poor and middle class, and wealthy owners are benefiting disproportionately.

Further, the whole NSA thing is a clear distraction from working on that problem. Let me give you a clue as to why over entitled white libertarians focus on the NSA, instead of things like racist cops who beat in heads. It's because pretending that the government is looking at their porn is about the only way they can feel the sweet sweet moral sanctimony of feeling "victimized". (By the way, I have not yet seen a single person complaining about this so-called issue who isn't lily white - one DWB stop resets your expectations on what is and is not "authortarian".)

When people start talking about the "big bad government" NSA, they stop believing that the government can do anything to help the problems you are most concerned about. In fact, that's why they do it. If you get rid of the NSA, the next step will be to get rid of the IRS (which has even more access to private information). And then we'll really be back in the guilded age again.

But no one is going to get that through your thick skull, Rhett. Luckily enough, we don't have to. This thing will go into the courts and almost certainly die a death of a thousand cited precedents.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community