The Edward Snowden story has been
floating around for a while. He's the former CIA operative who
didn't blow a whistle but a trumpet on the US and UK government
covert surveillance programs.
Not news to some just a confirmation of
what we've known has being going on for some time now, Just like
politicians on the fiddle, it has come as a surprise to some; that
their government wants to know what its people are up to. If what
Snowden says is true, the citizen of the United Kingdom are the most
spied on. Good job we are living in a 'democracy'
Some may say that if you are doing
nothing wrong, then what's the problem. Well....they are the problem
for one and by their logic....Why have the US and UK governments not
wanted their citizens to know what they've been up to, if it's
nothing wrong?
Their logic also dictates with no hint
of irony that Edward Snowden is wanted in the US on charges of
spying..... because he told the world that the US and UK governments
are spying on their citizens. That's how things work in a democracy.
He was in Hong Kong, but since the US
government put diplomatic pressure or threatened as I like to call it
the Hong Kong authorities to help with his extradition to the US he
has left there and is flying to Russia before possibly going to
'communist Cuba'
During the cold war all the Eastern
bloc countries watched and observed their citizens, it was how the
communist regimes maintained control, through fear, the secret police
were no secret, unlike in this hot war on terror world, where
everything they do is secret. and the only fear is the fear of the
unknown and the unseen.
Our democratic values are under threat
by the very people that have been entrusted to maintain them. Just
who are the real terrorists? because wasn't that what the war on
terror was all about, protecting our freedoms from those that wanted
to destroy democratic values?
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