Al Franken Defends NSA Surveillance: It’s Not Spying, They’re Protecting Us

[Kelvin Mace]

24. Hmmm...

Children believe in all sorts of BS that "grownup" tell them. Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth Fairy, etc.

Being grown up means you stop believing this type of stuff. Unfortunately, some adults then decide to promulgate the same lies rather than be honest.

Your statement:

"every time some public official says something they disagree with it's always a betrayal of the constitution or being a lackey of Big Brother or nonsense like that."

is hyperbolic. Please cite evidence that this is true.

I ask the same question I keep asking government apologists:

Why do they believe agencies and people who have an decades long record of lying and lawbreaking? Why is a person who has told so many lies that you've lost count, suddenly a credible, upstanding citizen?

It seems to me that the cognitive dissonance is the result of people not wanting to accept the fact that they voted for a guy who is EXPANDING the policies of George W. Bush. These criticisms of my viewpoints I heard five and six years ago, but they came from Rightwing crowd, telling me that Dickie Cheney and Donnie Rumsfeld knew what was best for America, and I (and people like me) should just shut the fuck up.