Alec Baldwin Calls NSA Spying A Sign Of Lazy Government And Paranoia

BuzzFeed - Events like the Boston bombing “feed into a paranoia” that leads to rights being “tossed aside,” he says. Via: Getty Images Alec Baldwin was not pleased to hear the news that the National Security Agency has continued to collect the data of millions of Verizon customers, but has complicated feelings over its larger implication."I think that the post-9/11 world is one in which people tell themselves that they'd rather be safe than sorry," Baldwin said in an interview at a press event in New York on Thursday for his new block of adventure programming on NatGeo. "And although I have an understanding of that and an appreciation of it, I do think that the democracy that we believe in and tell ourselves that we believe in, to preserve it, it takes a lot of...