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What has he done that makes him a terrorist? Or are you just inferring that mass spying is a form of terrorism?

• sp332 13y ago
  Making people feel insecure in their business and daily lives might count as a kind of terrorism.
• methehack 13y ago
  It was kind of a flip thing to say; I was on a bit of a roll. The argument, such as it is, would go something like this: Instead of physical terror, the policies Alexander pursues create a psychological terror that jeopardizes "our way of life". Instead of a fear of being blown up, we have a fear of persecution for what we say. A terrorist thinks he is beyond the law and uses his limited power to create fear in a population in order to achieve his ends, which the majority does not support. That's a description that seems to apply to Alexander. I know he's different, but he's definitely not as different as he thinks.