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[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.

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Glenn Greenwald
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 6
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The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.
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When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.
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There's a huge cost to freedom in letting people talk about how you print these plastic guns or letting them say these things about arming for tyranny. There's also a cost to letting the government say these ideas can't be expressed, this is treason. It's difficult.
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As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.
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It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.
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I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.
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Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
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As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic - is what is in the public interest to know. And then you go about and report it.
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Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
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Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.
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I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.
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