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In reply to the discussion: Blowback from the White House's Vindictive War on Whistleblowers [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Another good man, a man of conscience unjustly punished by an over-bearing government.
For shame.
As Martin Luther King pointed out, we should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal". Of course, the abuses revealed by Snowden are a far cry from the atrocities of the Nazis, but the principle, nevertheless, is the same: obedience to the law should not be absolute. Technically, we whistleblowers broke the law, but we felt, as many have felt before, that the obligation to our consciences and basic human rights is stronger than our obligation to obey the law.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/06-1
Thank you, Shami Leibowitz, for speaking out.
We need to speak out for our rights while we still can.