Originally Posted Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Heroics or Treason? As usual, everyone wants to lead the charge over the cliff in making a strong statement about Edward Snowden's activities. It is what we do as people, I guess. We often let strong emotions get involved in our original quick outburst of outrage, then, because we own it, it is difficult to back up, so we continue to defend it. Snowden's leaking of information, though, seems to me to require a lot of serious analysis. I'm not willing to say much yet. When Michael Moore and Glen Beck agree. . . it is time to sit back and watch the show. There was a New York Times article today (link) that seemed to me to strike a balance. The White House statement, though, that the activities of the NSA strike the correct balance between civil liberties and security seems the most troubling to me. By what measures? Who devised the scale? Where was it done?
We all know the answer to that one. Mom and Dad. They sat around the kitchen table one night and made a decision. They were doing what was best for the children. So they put secret cameras in the kids room and software on their computers that let them see what they were doing and had all the phone and text logs of the kids phones emailed to them. So once in a while they saw the kids masturbating over porn in their bedrooms. That wasn't really what they were looking for. They just wanted to make sure the kids were not consorting with the wrong types.
You have to strike a balance.
Like Mom and Dad are having steak and the kids are getting hamburgers. They like hamburger better anyway.
But I'm not going out on the limb on this yet, as I say. I don't know enough to have more than a popular opinion. Except about the girlfriend.
Holy smokes! You know I am going to have to contact her. I want to photograph her for certain. Lindsey Mills is a piece of work (link). I mean that in the highest sense. I am all for a woman who calls herself a "pole-dancing superhero"! Unlike my friend L, I am a sucker for the trashy things on the Huffington Post.
She is an artist. She will appreciate what I do. We will make art for the ages, she and I.
But I shouldn't be thinking about this just now. I don't have time. I am going to be late for my workshop.
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