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Apart from contested pretenses torrenting the fourth estate, Snowden's 'criminal' revelations
shouldn't a come a surprise in context of post-9/11 policies such as the Patriot Act.
In mid-June, 30-year-old Edward Snowden -- then-NSA contractor employed at Booz Allen Hamilton
-- leaked publications on NSA data mining programs to the UK's Guardian newspaper. Labeled
'PRISM', these NSA cloak-and-dagger activities were - and still are! - designed to harbor
and surveil American digital communications in realtime. Subsequent to verbal onslaught
by American officials, Snowden fled the States for Hong Kong to evade U.S. prosecution. Then
bullied by a 1996 extradition treaty between the U.S. and Hong Kong, Russian diplomats
within the Kremlin assuaged Snowden by vowing him political asylum. Presently en route to
an unnamed nation, purportedly Iceland, Ecuador, or Cuba via Moscow, Snowden is under fire
by the American government for nothing more than violating a nondisclosure agreement and
giving credence to federal liability. You can kill the messenger, but you can't kill
the message. Nevertheless, let's dissect the liberal and dictatorial synthesis of which
the mainstream media incessantly peddles to the public.
Snowden is a "traitor", but "if you see something, say something"! Snowden is a hero, a willing
martyr for truth and justice, for disclosing illegitimate government operations despite
deserting his six-figure annual paycheck, girlfriend, and comfortable residence in Hawaii.
Beneath the rhetoric, Obama -- consenter to the assassination of guiltless children and
recipient of Nobel Peace Prize and Man of the Year awards -- is the true traitor...and
yet is paraded throughout the euphemistic 'Home of the Brave' while criminal dragnets
are surveying Snowden. Director of the NSA James Clapper is, too, an American belligerent
and adversarial constitutionalist. When questioned by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden just a few weeks
back as to if the NSA "collects any type of data at all on millions of Americans", Clapper
blatantly perjured by replying, "not wittingly". Exposing crime is not a crime; committing
crime is a crime.
Snowden "stole" information belonging to the American public. This erroneous notion defies
that Snowden, himself an entity of the American public, published a trove of documents (therefore
theoretically under his possession) and refunded Americans autonomy over the democratic model.
It is of the public's pursuit to define and sanction policies and programs of the federal
government. Snowden is not a vile thief, he is a valiant whistleblower. The NSA's, not
Snowden's, warrantless surveillance and wiretapping, amidst PRISM, illegally sabotaged the metadata
of and jeopardized the privacy of we, the people. But...if you're doing nothing wrong,
why do you need to have rights?
On June 22, the Obama Administration charged an instigator of civil disobedience deliberately
juxtaposed with a high-school dropout, Ed Snowden, with 'espionage'. Though, handing
classified information to, not the American people, but the enemy is indicative of espionage.
Either Obama needs a refresher course in law at his Massachusettsan alma mater, or perhaps
this legal slipup is merely confirmation that the U.S. government views you and me as 'the
enemy'. Reversely, the National Security Agency should be incriminated for espionage; illegally
fabricating the groundwork to an Orwellian surveillance state. Elicited by Senator Dianne
'Gun-Grabbin'' Feinstein, Snowden - if anything - should be indicted for treason, not espionage.
Even so, Snowden aided his country by rekindling transparency to an establishment laden with
opacity - not the inverse, as the liberal media illustrates. Implying that Snowden's
silence and compliance, to unconstitutional ultimatums, would yield no crime fosters the
perils of American indifference. In an empire of lies, the truth becomes treasonous.