This is just like one of those 'support our troops' stickers that were all over the USA.
> I just assume that they're serving.
That doesn't mean they are serving our collective best interests. They might very well be acting against those interests while they think they are serving them.
Vietnam vets are a particularly bad example to bring up here (and I know a couple of them that are very outspoken in this regard), they were fed a line and used and plenty of them still live with the guilt and horrors of that today.
To serve some masters blindly is quite dangerous for ones mental health especially in the longer term.
Calling Snowden not a 'true whistleblower' makes me wonder what it would take for you to consider anybody a whistleblower.
> I just assume that they're serving.
That doesn't mean they are serving our collective best interests. They might very well be acting against those interests while they think they are serving them.
Vietnam vets are a particularly bad example to bring up here (and I know a couple of them that are very outspoken in this regard), they were fed a line and used and plenty of them still live with the guilt and horrors of that today.
To serve some masters blindly is quite dangerous for ones mental health especially in the longer term.
Calling Snowden not a 'true whistleblower' makes me wonder what it would take for you to consider anybody a whistleblower.