Glenn Greenwald Is One of the Few Liberals Worth Reading

At times I wonder why Glenn is even a liberal given that he writes heroic lines like this:

That concept -- that the U.S. Government should not be monitoring, surveilling and collecting data on individuals who are not under criminal investigation -- was once the hallmark of basic American liberty, so uncontroversial as to require no defense.  But decades of effective fear-mongering over everything from Communists to drug kingpins -- and particularly the last decade of invoking the all-justifying, Scary mantra of Terrorism -- has reduced much of the American citizenry into a frightened and meek puddle of acquiescence which not only tolerates, but craves, a complete deprivation of privacy.

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[John Cullison]

Actually, liberals and conservatives both make valid points sometimes. The trick to defining the boundaries between created oppositions (like liberal versus conservative, religion A versus religion B, gay versus anti-gay, atheist versus religious type, ...) is to include enough truth that is important to some people and then pile on all the other stupid stuff to make sure that, no matter which side wins, the stupid stuff guarantees further enslavement to our malevolent overlords.