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I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

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Glenn Greenwald
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 6
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They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
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It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.
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Arming domestic police forces with paramilitary weaponry will ensure their systematic use even in the absence of a terrorist attack on US soil they will simply find other, increasingly permissive uses for those weapons.
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He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.
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The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
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