Quote (Ghot @ Oct 16 2019 06:32am)
Yeah, I'm FOR the people. I'm NOT for these SJWs though. I'm for the people that spend their lives making the US a safe place to live, the people that put their lives on the line to do so.
I'm NOT for the people that jump online and act like they should be heard, just because they heard about something they don't like.
One of the most basic laws of this country is that if you work in a classified setting, you keep it classified.
I mean what's next, some one gives away they blueprints to our defenses? Or maybe some company starts building the best of our weapons for N. Korea?
A line needs to be drawn somewhere. It's not like anyone forced Snowden to work in a field that dealt with classified information. Snowden is a guy that had SWORN to never reveal the information he was shown and had worked with.
This isn't like the case of a kid who tells the vidsiting friends that mommy makes a lot of noises in the bedroom some times.
This pertains to National Defense.
Like I said... If standing by an oath not to reveal is a problem for someone, they shouldn't take the job then. National Defense is NOT a game of RISK among a few friends sitting around the living room one night.
National Defense is the REAL world. A world where people and countries... die sometimes. Die, for REAL. Where it's not just a little red playing piece on a game board. It's the possible deaths of millions of those "people" you are so fond of.
I'm quite sure that Russia and China for that matter are quite happy with Snowden and his antics. The real life game of RISK, is a lot more serious and deadly, than most people are aware of, or would even give credence to if they DID know the details.
One of the very hardest things to protect these days, is the computer networks our lives depend on. There's a continuous cyber war going on, all the time. Just because we are not coninually aware of it, doesn't mean it's not happening.
I'm sure a country like China or even Russia would just love to gather the last piece of information they needed to be able to hack our... banking system. Or maybe the hospital records systems, the electric power grid.
I'd really like to see how these SJW idiots would handle things if they woke up one day to no money or electricity... anywhere in the US. 10 to 1 odds they'd change their tune in about a heartbeat.
Sure, we'd all love if the world worked like it fictionally did in Star Trek TNG. Unfortunately, it doesn't. There are player out there who would just love to see you suffer for no other reason than you are a US citizen. Personally, I like living in the US and knowing that it will still be around when I wake up tomorrow.
Govt. employees that "leak" classified information, like Snowden or Manning, etc., should IMO be tried, convicted and spend the rest of their lives, locked away, where they can't do any more harm.
Read through some of it, and it's just a repeat of what we've already discussed.
Go read the oath Snowden took, because it obligates him to protect the constitution, and that means revealing unconstitutional activity when official channels fail.