On: Obama’s Changes to Government Surveillance

[moksha256]

That's what you would think, but somehow people always end up thinking the next one will be different.

I find it particularly unsettling when people off the street justify Obama in their own words.

They've truly been brainwashed--no other way to put it. Scary.

[pekk → moksha256]

If someone disagrees with you, perhaps they were paying attention (to different things) and not simply brainwashed.

Otherwise, everyone can accuse everyone of being brainwashed any time an opinion they don't like is expressed

[moksha256 → pekk]

When you're convinced that fundamental concepts like freedom, due process, and privacy are worth violating--for any reason--you've been brainwashed. No excuses. Everyone knows better.

I didn't intend my comment to apply to politics at-large, just the privacy and civil liberties topics currently at hand.

I think it's possible to make a case for the broader political spectrum, but I won't attempt that here.