arcsine1

Why Snowdenistas? You're doubling up on the smear by association gambit. Not only associate with ists like communist & socialist, but ending with 'istas' it brings to mind the Sandanistas of South America. Flagrant judo attempt, lumping anyone who feels that the NSA & GCHQ domestic actions should be carefully regulated and at this moment, publicly investigated should be considered a socialist foreigner and automatically suspect. In the same vein, why shouldn't your supporters be labeled Lucaryans?

You claim that one of the terrible consequences of this whistleblowing event is that many people now question the statements of the government. You seem to have forgotten every other political event prior to the whistleblowing. Do you recall the worldwide financial meltdown that prompted protests such as Occupy Wall Street? While protestors and protests were being criminalized, financial fraud was being amnestied. Now you're using the same justification - "the work of these agencies are too important to society to be hampered by common notions of criminal prosecution"

Why do you support blind allegiance to the government instead of the responsibility of citizens to demand and defend their rights?

You're tapping into racial divisions and distrust to support your point of view. Fine. Lucas-aryans.