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Where were these uber-concerned citizens while George Bush was raping the US and Iraq? Why are they not protesting at the White House or stopping NSA employees from getting to work? But yeah, trample the rights of individual people, that will help. It's easy (and a lot less dangerous) to hate and pester a guy who makes more money than you. Forget about who's ruining the country and focus on the guy you think is responsible for you losing your rent controlled apartment. A few disingenuous trouble makers (organizers) stirring up the poor and the stupid for a cause that isn't a cause, just the distracting, headline grabbing, crusade du jour.

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In primary school? Seriously, this sounds exactly like the pseudo radical bullshit you'd expect from not-quite-20 year old college freshmen.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/03/20_antiw...

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_8626408

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/21/18487630.php

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The same website also covered NSA protests: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/26/18745485.php

Maybe they through Iraq war is a good idea and support surveillance state?

I do not understand what SF issue is really about, but it seems to be local problem unrelated to international or security politic.

The text is TFA is strongly anti-surveillance state.

In all honesty, I found TFA extremely hard to read. It is almost as if the text would be random generated. Something about that style made my brain pick up parts, maybe because parts make sense while whole paragraphs make much less sense.

So, I missed the anti-surveillance state aspect. My bad.

"Where were these uber-concerned citizens while George Bush was raping the US and Iraq?"

Probably protesting, just not in front of two-story palaces.

"Why are they not protesting at the White House"

Probably they are from time to time, or anyway in front of federal buildings.

"or stopping NSA employees from getting to work?"

I don't know--maybe because they'd have to move to Maryland?

[Edit: Just to clarify, I do think they are schmucks, just more or less consistent ones.]

It's a very first world "not in my backyard" movement. Righteous indignation about someone with more money encroaching on "their place" in the universe. Get used to it little hipsters, you're not the first it's ever happened to and you won't be the last.

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