I don't know why I feel like just jabbing the bear here recently but here we go bear

have another stick to the ribs Edward Snowden have you heard of this guy I know there's some of you

who are listening were like yeah we should probably sandblast off one of the four

presidents and put him right on Mount Rushmore.

And there are others of you like, that guy is a traitor because I heard that he put people in danger

and he violated rules and stuff.

I cannot possibly hide what I think.

I think that if your government is misbehaving

it's the obligation of the person who sees the misbehavior to report it to the government's

boss which is the people. So there are things that Snowden did that I happen to like

maybe I don't agree with everything he

thinks, who cares, right? We've learned to get along even in disagreement in agreement,

whatever. What is significant, though, is that when Edward Snowden started to say,

uh, heads up everybody, your government's listening to your phone calls, that is totally happening.

It's not like some paranoid, tin foil hat thing that's going on.

This is a real deal. It's an actual practice. There's a name for the program. How do I know? I worked on the program and here's all the data about it.

A lot of people at first were like that is crazy conspiracy stuff and I don't like it and then

eventually the government was like, I mean well I mean we said no for like the first 10 times you asked but now that you have the actual paperwork

Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, we listen to you guys I mean it's for your own safety though. And I again understand that there are going to be people in this conversation who really value that feeling of safety you get from, you know, the government doing the things that the government does and you know what I like you that's cool whatever's fine

I am definitely on the other side of the spectrum are like yeah personal responsibility and freedom and civil liberties in the Bill of Rights and the Fourth Amendment.

I think that stuff's really important and I actually feel a little bit less security

when the government tends to break its own rules and break the contract we have with the government in the name of keeping us safe.

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