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o11c  ·  3415 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Edward Snowden and the Ethics of Whistleblowing

The whole point of America is that the government doesn't get to decide for us, the people do. My problem with the NSA is that it is answerable to no one, especially not the people. That's not freedom.

Quoting the Declaration of Independence:

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed