I think that there are more than a few paid sock puppets, but I think there are even more people who either work in the hilariously and euphemistically named “defense industry” or work directly for a three lettered agency. These people are currently being kicked in the face with cognitive dissonance. The public in large part is mortified and disgusted with these people, yet celebrate brave and courageous heroes like Snowden.
Even worse, and this is what I think kills them the most, Snowden has clearly and unquestionably done what he has done out of a patriotic sense of duty. He sacrificed a cushy job, a house in Hawaii, and a safe pile of money to go on the run from an agency that he personally knew would instantly tap all of his communication and has been known to murder Americans overseas without trial. That is a courageous badass motherfucking patriot. If you are working in the defense industry, you need to justify the fat paycheck you get and the gobs of government money you piss away with the belief delusional belief that you are a patriot. Someone who steps outside of that power structure and patriotically points out how you are CLEARLY unpatriotic bastards taking piles of money to destroy the constitution of the nation is a real threat. You can usually spot these people a mile away as they desperately try and postulate and find some way in which Snodwen isn’t exactly what he appears to be, a bad ass patriot.
