From a mail list I'm on, populated by intelligent, thoughtful people, see this comment about the pardon-Snowden White House petition:

From a mail list I'm on, populated by intelligent, thoughtful people, see this comment about the pardon-Snowden White House petition:

> Once upon a time I would have signed a White House petition to this
> administration with no qualms.  Now, however, a chilling thought
> occurs: What "watch-lists" will signing a petition like this put me
> on?  NSA?  IRS?  It's not a paranoid question anymore, in the United
> States of Surveillance.
> 

This is what we're coming to...

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