I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.

What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.

[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.