by Sparse1 » Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:57 am
Well yeah, all democracies need to try and avoid the creation of a political elite, it rather undermines the whole thing. America isn't alone in having a society divided up into the rulers and the ruled. It's a problem we all have, America suffers more because of her electoral system.
I'm finding this story increasingly interesting because the more this Snowden guy speaks the less he backs up what the Guardian have claimed.
Yesterday he was saying that the US government does have filters in place to prevent them from collecting data on US citizens - he just said they can be circumvented (which is obvious, any filter can be circumvented if you want to). That actually contradicts what the Guardian claimed.
If he is genuine, then the Guardian either have another source or are exploiting him to make their own point.
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