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Oops. If true, the utter betrayal of government over the governed. At least in a fascist state, you know you're going to get screwed. Well, I think we can

• eru 12y ago
  No state (today) would openly admit to that label.
• aburan28 12y ago
  Snowden's revelations came too late to garner a big enough reaction from the populace in my opinion
• smsm42 12y ago
  Well, we can't really know everything he said is valid (he might be mistaken or deceived, for example) but certainly some of it is. But one doesn't need Snowden to know government will expand its powers if allowed to do so. You don't need Snowden, you just need a good history book and a bit of thinking. Snowden revelations showed how bad exactly it has gotten. But you could predict that it's going to get bad just because the government has been given wide powers and no substantial control over them. There's no way it would not go bad, it always does.
  • socceroos 12y ago
    Prior to Snowden's 'revelations' I was accused of being a tin-foil hatter wherever I expressed my opinion on government spying. Not so much now.
• baddox 12y ago
  > At least in a fascist state, you know you're going to get screwed. Lots of people know this about our state, but most of them get dismissed as radicals.