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You can't wish this away ... This whole NSA surveillance matter is heading for the Supreme Court again. An unconstitutional law is an illegal law, it's the same meaning.

Even soldiers do not have to follow illegal orders. But then the Nazi SS followed orders *the Nuremberg laws), the chain of command followed orders at My Lai, the Khmer Rouge followed orders ... This NSA affair may not be as drastic -- it is not murder. However, the NSA folks are following orders too -- illegal court orders.

So you are pissed at Snowden for not following what he believes to be illegal orders? That is for the Courts to decide. They will either hang Snowden for treason or vindicate him in the end.

This is the kind of shit that has led to the radicalization of the Second Amendment gun ownership rights. Defending personal freedom from a constantly more oppressive US government. When the government doesn't follow its own laws -- citizens will take matters into their own hands when pushed far enough.

I lived this during the Vietnam War era. Nixon's Enemies List, J. Edgar Hoover's illegal wiretaps, Pentagon Papers Leaker Daniel Ellsberg Praises Snowden, Manning => http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...nowden-manning this is the same shit all over again and I know how it worked out the last time -- I was there.