Just like Google or Facebook, or any other organisation that you might care to mention, the NSA is a group of people, human beings, and fellow travellers on our

Just like Google or Facebook, or any other organisation that you might care to mention, the NSA is a group of people, human beings, and fellow travellers on our annual circumlocution of Sol. I don't want to spit vile hatred, nor make any man my enemy, but I do want to communicate the depth and breadth of my concern for the things that we do, and the situations that we end up sleep-walking into. These matters are serious enough that I would implore individuals to consider their own position, and to deeply reflect on what their actions mean in a broader context; to step outside their mental comfort zone and seek another - any other - perspective with which to view their actions. If such reflection reinforces their sense or purpose, and the righteousness and justice of their mission, then so be it. If it causes them to question, and to ponder, and to debate, then so much the better. It is too much to ask for people to turn through 180 degrees - and perhaps the wrong direction to pick, also, but it is not too much to ask for a conversation that goes beyond mutual recrimination and hatred.