[PythonicAlpha]

Nice stories will not bring freedom back! (do you also have arguments, instead of ignoring them?)

Do you want to say, that Snowden, Manning and other Whistle blowers are not oppressed? Have you no eyes?? I guess not!!

(and this is only one small example of oppression, that everybody knows but most just ignore -- to live without disturbance -- very much like the people in former Nazi Germany).

To be clear about it: What happened to Manning alone, is a shame to any civilized society -- if he is guilty or not.

When the so called "Aluhuttraeger" where saying, that the US where spying on us, 10 or 20 years ago, everybody was laughing.

Some of those laughs have already stopped.

[pvg]

I have, indeed, no eyes although I'm less sure about the laughs.

[PythonicAlpha]

Laugh or not laugh, you can even ignore truth -- but when they some day stand at your door, it is to late.

It is amazing, that humans can not learn from history and even not understand, what is obvious.

Making fun and telling nice stories -- how paltry.