The trouble is that the anti-NSA leaders are mostly politicians, and HN readers are meant to be just another single-issue voting bloc. I'm all for political ana

The trouble is that the anti-NSA leaders are mostly politicians, and HN readers are meant to be just another single-issue voting bloc. I'm all for political analysis, even on HN, but real analysis involves looking at the actions and motivations of all players. What we are getting is pseudo-analysis that ignores the motivations and conniving of, say, the publishers. For example, questions like "Was this Snowden release timed to get Putin's Syria victory out of the headlines?" or "What is the social context for Power Point slide 15? Were they actually trying to subvert Petrobras or is it just a convention where you have to put on your war face to express your personal commitment to the program?". I have been repeatedly censored for trying to discuss the context, so now I have given up and flag most of the NSA stories. As usual democracy has served its purpose and made the scariest storyteller the winner. All we lack now is how defeating the NSA is for the children—when those stories show up you'll know the evil anti-liberty NSA bogeyman is about to fall of the radar.