Well, at least he's not stuck in an airport for the rest of his life. Stay in one long enough and even jail begins to look good.
But the problem remains -- what are we going to do about PRISM, or even more to the core of the problem, about the cult of secrecy in our government?
Senators Graham, McCain, and Pelosi would have you believe the cult is for our own good, because we're not informed enough to know what's good for us.
Of course, we don't have access to the information that would help us make up our own minds, so the circular argument closes itself and we have to resort to Plan B -- which is, "If you don't know national security, know those who do."
And I'd nominate the aforementioned senators, but they seem to know just a little more than I do -- by their own design, the executive branch's reluctance to be honest in hearings, and the judicial branch's own complicity in rubber-stamping requests.
By analogy, if a major US corporation hired whites 99.99% of the time over non-whites, the AG would be all over them.
Given the state we're in today, why did the founders even bother revolting? If you took what some of our senators are saying, replace "national security" with "monarchy", you'd probably have a speech uttered by some Tory back in 1770.
But the problem remains -- what are we going to do about PRISM, or even more to the core of the problem, about the cult of secrecy in our government?
Senators Graham, McCain, and Pelosi would have you believe the cult is for our own good, because we're not informed enough to know what's good for us.
Of course, we don't have access to the information that would help us make up our own minds, so the circular argument closes itself and we have to resort to Plan B -- which is, "If you don't know national security, know those who do."
And I'd nominate the aforementioned senators, but they seem to know just a little more than I do -- by their own design, the executive branch's reluctance to be honest in hearings, and the judicial branch's own complicity in rubber-stamping requests.
By analogy, if a major US corporation hired whites 99.99% of the time over non-whites, the AG would be all over them.
Given the state we're in today, why did the founders even bother revolting? If you took what some of our senators are saying, replace "national security" with "monarchy", you'd probably have a speech uttered by some Tory back in 1770.