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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEdward Snowden, True Hope for Change
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/16-9***SNIP
When the story of the mass NSA surveillance first broke out, Obama swiftly moved to defend this secret program as his officials continued to lie about its extent and their justification for it. He portrayed it as a choice between security and freedom, conflating the two issues as he argued how we can't have 100 percent security, and also then have 100 percent privacy..."
Here we are seeing an administration that blatantly violates the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution; "unreasonable searches and seizures", justifying it with secret courts and secret interpretations of the law. When their wrongdoing was exposed, they diverted public attention through a coordinated mass propaganda using the tired bipartisan sound-bites of 'threats to national security'.
Snowdens saga triggered a tidal wave of awakening that no campaign of lies can put to rest. As US officials continuously repeat the baseless rhetoric of 'aiding the enemy', calling the young whistleblower a traitor, questions have emerged regarding the legitimacy of the Obama regime itself.
The overarching question is; Who really broke the law? Who engaged in acts that were clearly unconstitutional? Who has not only harmed national security, but the security of the whole world? Who has undermined diplomacy among nations, encouraging them to play to age-old cold war games? Who uses a colonial mentality, bullying small countries and undermining their sovereignty? Who has brought terror, turning the world into a battlefield, killing innocent people with assassination drone attacks and signature strikes?
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Edward Snowden, True Hope for Change (Original Post)
xchrom
Jul 2013
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tridim
(45,358 posts)1. LOL, that hope poster is so ironically hysterical
Snowden is a freaking loser, not a vessel of hope.
AllINeedIsCoffee
(772 posts)5. Here's an alternative.
pgr
(36 posts)2. Comrade Snowdon?
He can't even figure out how to get out of his own trap and he is "hope"?
If that loser is the best we can do why even bother?
Laelth
(32,017 posts)3. Interesting. k&r for exposure. n/t
-Laelth
ProSense
(116,464 posts)4. Yeah,
"Edward Snowden, True Hope for Change"
...a delusional liar will save us.
Edward Snowden Declares Himself Torture-Proof
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023275112
think
(11,641 posts)6. The one liners are flying in here as the facts flee.....
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)7. Well the fleas are a biting
I don't blame the juicy facts for running away. Besides many who have posted the one liners are in a fact free environment, unless a fact can be twisted to become a shocker headline.