White House: "We expect" Hong Kong to comply with Snowden extradition

[JDPriestly]

48. Being bored in high school is no excuse.

Not finishing high school is a sign of poor self-control. Still, I am glad that Snowden let us know about this surveillance program which is way out of control.

The existence of this program suggests to me that a lot of people in our government have poor self-control and cannot resist the urge to snoop into other people's business.

Remember, Snowden was a snoop and he talked out of school about it.

But what he was talking about was a program of massive snooping that made his snooping look insignificant.

Interestingly they outsourced the snooping work to a private company like Booz(e) Allen which may or may not be, itself subject to the limitations of the Bill of Rights.

In any event, I think that might become an issue of importance to Booze Allen but since the US used the information and is definitely bound by the Bill of Rights, I am hoping that a court will have the courage to stand up for the American people and just say no to this kind of massive surveillance. As for terrorism, dictatorships always find an excuse for spying on their own people.

I really feel that Providence is directing our country and that thanks in part to this and other similar leaks, we will be protected from would-be dictators. Dictatorships always have plausible excuses for narrowing the rights of others, for exerting excessive control.

Anything Cheney did while in office should be strictly reviewed for failure to adhere to the spirit and law as written in our Constitution. He was an evil would-be dictator. Obama is a nice guy and has been duped. That is my feeling. Obama is just not strong enough to stand up to the dictatorship mentality. It's a shame but he is not.