[lbo-talk] Snowden

[Gar Lipow]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Obviously, nobody supports spying but there is a big difference between
> anti-government diatribes of liberals and lefties and remaining silent on
> the issue. The only people who can possibly gain from anti-government  diatribes in this country is businessmen who want dereguation.  There is  no way on earth that liberals and lefties can gain anything out of this  spying brouhaha - nothing, zilch, nada!  So why barking at all?   It did not come as a surprise to you, did it?  An if it does, naive does not even
> start describing it.
>
> It is this infantile kvetching about this pseudo-issue that is getting on  my nerves.  It is pseudo-issue because all governments have been doing it in one form or another, and everyone knows about it.  It is infantile because liberals and leftists think that they will shed their political impotence by throwing a fit.

So how far do you take this analysis? Assassination? Every government
on earth does assassination, and everybody knows it. So is objecting
to assassination "barking"? What about torture? Or if it is a matter
of degree, what about tax breaks for the rich, and forgiving rich
people for offense governments jail the working and middle classes
for?
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> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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