Informed citizens are the only check on despotism
"Locke is more interested in describing the occasions when the people take power back from the government to which they have entrusted it. If the rule of law is ignored, if the representatives of the people are prevented from assembling, if the mechanisms of election are altered without popular consent, or if the people are handed over to a foreign power, then they can take back their original authority and overthrow the government.
They can also rebel if the government attempts to take away their rights... "
"I have no idea who Edward Snowden is"
@22:40
Comedy John: If you're going to play real journalist, might as well ask a relevant question:
"What puts Americans more at risk: Revealing illegal NSA surveillance or invading other countries under totally fabricated pretense and camping out for a decade?"
Then the real question, how to have true freedom when 61% of zombies want to give carte blanche to unregulated megalomaniacs and psychopaths?
Fortunately, those people are the most prone to "inconveniently" self-obliterate.
