Look at the picture as it is; NSA was and is violating every citizens right to privacy, without warrant, that's the crime. Snowden simply blew the whistle on that practice. He did not disclose any National Security Secrets that would be valuable to any foreign nation therefore no treasonous event. Foreigners in this country should expect to be surveyed while in this country if they are deemed interested parties by our national security operations. Citizens spying should be embarrassing to our federal government but then what of about what they do is not embarrassing to them when it violates our Constitutional Republic daily. More Whistle Blowers are needed but then job security is often the reason those who have knowledge and do not come forward seek to remain gain fully employed at those levels, its is their guts that suffer while We the People suffer unknowingly in silence most of the time.

Obama 2, Constitutional Republic 0 is the way it should have been presented in the lead to the article; another Progressive indoctrination success of the author.

Hopefully this is a good sign of what will be happening nationwide as each states election cycles come about. There are too many RINOs at all levels of government and in every state. They have managed to get themselves elected by what they say and not what they actually do!

We should neither be there or plan on being there, we have enough regime change taking place in USA to be concerned with our on national sovereignty. Stay home and take care of CPUSA infiltration of our government starting with our white house and congress.

Federally subsidizing farmers is simply another benefit program like welfare. Welfare for the farmers means that they cannot exist unless the government props them up so they can earn a living. Most farmers in early times farmed to produce food and sustenance for their families, deliver products to market to provide income for the family and prepare for the next planting season. It was not an easy life as compared to todays farmers who travel their fields in very expensive well ventilated and air conditioned equipment with their GPSs to help them locate and plant and harvest their fields each year. Almost all are not 80 acres farms today but 1000s of acres, and many incorporated to hide the true identity of those who really own the land, it is big business today, and not something that need subsides to prop up. Operating expenses are a management issue, not a government funded issue to be paid for with taxpayer's money. I do not see poor farmers in my area of the country even in the worst of years, almost all have money in the bank to support those lean years; hotel operators and other business do not get or ask for subsidies from the federal government when their businesses experience lean times and farmers and ranchers should not either, it is just creates an un-level business playing field when they are propped up by the federal government.

The Republican and Democrat Progressive Movement for years had their coattails inhabited by every group imaginable Liberals, Socialists, Communists, etc.; each of these organizations tried to get the Progressives to by into their agenda, and over time the Communist Party won the war without firing a shot on the battlefield. CPUSA is the most powerful political party in the United States today thanks in large part for most of us being asleep over the last 80+ years. The awakening has now happened and the American people, who have not been converted are now rising up to reclaim our Constitutional Republic the Republican form of government our founding fathers gave us, and which the we collectively have abused by electing those to represent us without vetting them for who they really are philosophically. As Derek said this is not a sprint, but a marathon and we maybe way behind at this point but I see us picking up the pace now and the next elections will tell the real story; the incumbents should return home and new Constitutional and Fiscally Conservative blood should take their seats in both houses of congress.

Communist Agenda Part III 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems. 43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

Communist Agenda Part II 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms." 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy." 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch." 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man." 31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. 32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. 33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. 34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]. 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

Communist Agenda Part I 1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. 2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. 3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. 4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. 5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. 6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. 7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. 8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. 9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. 10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N. 11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. 13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. 14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. 18. Gain control of all student newspapers. 19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions. 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

GSA is fraught with bad management decisions, it costs the US taxpayers billions each year from their mismanaged business operations, including bad construction designs, bad engineering, and incompetent oversight at the source. Good example is the new Port of Entry at Portal North Dakota, a project started in March of 2008 shutdown in March of 2010 for reasons stated above, and finally completed and opened in April 2013, and at what cost for their lack of management expertise. They never in the original design concept thought to involve the end users of their building when completed, and this required additional design correction, and additionally they some how didn't bother to get Canada's agreement to redesign the entry into the Port from Canada another stoppage because Canada did not agree to the plan GSA and its Engineers originally designed which required an in Canada restructuring of the entry. So goes GSA and its Denver office mismanagement.