All in with Chris
Hayes, a program on MSNBC hosted #Glenn Greenwell as a guest. It was disgusting. Greenwald was there
to grub out a few dollars selling books. What I found the most disgusting was
an off-hand remark made by Greenwald to the nodding agreement of #Hayes; “When
I started writing public polling indicated terrorism was number one on the most
despised list, now it is our government.” He was bragging about contributing to
the generation of hate for his own government. This is not responsible journalism!
For those who do not know, Glenn Greenwald is the reporter #Snowden
came to with the information that he had access to government secrets but would
not send the information unless Greenwald bought an installed a cheap encryption
package on his computer, which he did; thus, incriminating himself in stealing government secrets. Greenwald received
and published some of the secrets because under the first amendment he can. As
a press reporter, he claims to have the right to yell fire in a theater even
though others cannot. As a result of his criminal activity, Snowden fled the
country with his computer that contained the information on their hard drives, first
to China then to Russia but Greenwald
stayed and continued to publish reports; making money big time.
The American people will never know how many people died or
will die because of the damage he did to our information gathering apparatus. They
have compromised both terrorists operations and international policy. We will
never know if Putin knew how to avoid detecting his moves in Ukraine or into
the Arctic for oil and a long list of etceteras. At a critical time in places
like Iran, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, the information gathering ability of those
who are trying to protect our country has been compromised and Hayes and
Greenwald are bragging about weakening their own government.
They claim what they are doing is making our government stronger.
They claim the First Amendment gives
them the rights to do what they are doing—it does not! The Supreme Court,
with their Citizens United decision, has clearly shown that misinterpretation of
the Constitution can lead to the destruction of democracy and turn it into a plutocracy.
The same is true with the Second Amendment, which has turned our country into a
circular firing squad. Anthony Scalia of the Supreme Court is the equivalent of
Nevada rancher Clevin Bundy. More and more the fundamentalists are destroying
the intentions of the spirits of 1776, of that document.
Every one knows that corporate surveillance far exceeds
anything our government is doing or ever has done. Everyone knows that we can
vote a government official out of office if information is even slightly misused
but can do nothing about a corporate CEO who misuses personal information in
the most nefarious way every minute of every day. #Hayes and #Greenwald, also
driven by greed, make corporations more powerful by making government weaker.
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