@JPB,
The Stasi was a bit old-fashioned JP compared to the techniques now.
And anyway, everybody knew it was operating.
In the case here it is the issue of the public being informed of something it didn't know was operating that is the crux of the matter. With the "something" being a matter close to the heart of millions of Americans who have been conditioned in the same way Eddie was.
No secrets have been revealed except the one that Americans were being routinely spied upon behind their backs and all paid for by their own money.
Thus it is the gross error of Americans being spied upon without their knowledge and with tens of thousands of Americans being eager parties to it which was therefore bound to eventually be exposed unless the NSA only employed people who thought the Constitution was a pile of old ****.
Hubris. And that expands to fill any amount of space if unchecked. The nervous bank robber becomes, after a number of successful efforts, cocky.
And this very elementary error has resulted in our enemies now knowing how we spy on them. Very good. The error has blown the secret. Eddie was only the first to have the guts to test his love of the American way of life. Had he not been another would have emerged. Eddie's of no account. Love of the American way of life pulled the trigger and the silly buggers pursuing the lad are the very same ones that made enormous efforts to inculcate that love and still do.
There were no loyalty parades every morning at the school I went to. No flags and nobody wailing patriotic ditties. That's because we all know we are a load of wankers living in a dump. All the priests were hungover at that time of day.
Apisa is making the arrogant assumption that the inculcation of a love of America produces the same effect on everybody as it did on him.
