The Snowden Principle - a lie told by everyone is not the truth
The Snowden Principle
John Cusack
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When The Snowden Principle is invoked and revelations of this magnitude are revealed; it is always met with predictable establishment blowback from the red and blue elites of state power. Those in charge are prone to hysteria and engage in character assassination, as are many in the establishment press that have been co-opted by government access . When The Snowden Principle is evoked the fix is always in and instead of looking at the wrongdoing exposed, they parrot the government position no matter what the facts
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Within hours of the NSA's leaks, a massive coalition of groups came together to plan an international campaign to oppose and fix the NSA spying regime. You can join them here - I already did. The groups span across the political spectrum, from Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and longtime civil rights groups like ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Free Press.
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But as law professor Jonathan Turley reminds us, a lie told by everyone is not the truth. "The Republican and Democratic parties have achieved a bipartisan purpose in uniting against the public's need to know about massive surveillance programs and the need to redefine privacy in a more surveillance friendly image," he wrote recently.
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As more people find out about these abuses, the outrage mounts and the debate expands. Many in the mainstream media have shown that the public can't count on them to stand up to internal pressure when The Snowden Principle is evoked to serve the national interest, and protect our core fundamental rights.
The questions The Snowden Principle raises when evoked will not go away....How long do they expect rational people to accept using the word "terror" to justify and excuse ever expanding executive and state power ? Why are so many in our government and press and intellectual class so afraid of an informed public? Why are they so afraid of a Free Press and the people's right to know?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/snowden-principle_b_3441237.html
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And accepts it as normal.
I was thinking of you so strongly tonight because I was going through some old bookmarks and found some where, lol, we got thrown under the bus in June 2008 for speaking out against the pre-Presidential FISA vote. Some of them were so sad to read right now. You were ON IT! This is one of the ones I had up Hoyer: FISA bill passed to keep the Blue Dogs from demanding a stronger bill. Absurdity
You were very prescient. We need you so I'm happy you're here!
Please check your PMs in a few minutes.
Just look for the Klingon discommendations! 
I loved Grosse Point Blank, I'll put this on my list. 
*Inside joke for Cusack fans.
Very violent clip from Grosse Point Blank
