Your thoughts on Snowden

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sales2099 said:

KungKras said:

sales2099 said:

I think this guys is a traitor to the US. The program is meant to spy on terrorists, and the general public has nothing to worry about. The gov't isnt interested in monitoring for petty crimes.....they listen to people that can possibly threaten national security.

So the average guy who bootlegs music online.......the government doesn't give two shits (pardon me) about them. So this guy took a program that is said to have stopped 50+ terror plots, and made it so the general public is outraged over something that doesn't effect them and actually protects them.

Its easy to criticize these things....until the next 911 happens. The government can only do so much sometimes.

That's what you think. But the entertainment conglomerates do care about piracy. And the US government only works for the US corporations.

Pretty sure its the US corporations that give the gov't billions of dollars in tax money every year but sure.

Corporate income tax is dwarfed by personal income tax in the US. The ratio is around 4:1.

But that's mostly beside the point. The people who run government don't care about that money. They get to spend it on behalf of citizens but they don't get to keep very much of it. They care about the money that gets them elected (and the influence that gets them a golden parachute should they fail to get elected). That's the market where politicians are bought and sold in US politics. And busines is booming.

And in response to your OP, you should be less concerned about the next 9/11 and more worried about the next thunderstorm. Ionized clouds hate us for our ground.