Assassination of high profile individuals --> more gun control Snowden disclosing information that the government is spying on us (which the author points out may or may not be technically illegal) --> more privacy laws? less privacy laws? I don't get it either. This is ridiculous. And while I think that the connotation that comes with Nazi's is a bit intense for this case, it isn't that far off of a comparison. In general terms, both are groups of people going with the flow to protect their own self interests while progressing a higher agenda, which may or may not be evil. Early in Nazi Germany, certainly there were Nazis who were actively committing evil deeds, but you can say the same for a certain population of the US government employees. Snowden's comparison isn't any more ridiculous that the author's leading paragraph.And it is simply grotesque that Snowden compares these thousands of government workers—all doing their jobs to protect the United States—to the Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg.