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does anyone actually agree with this ?
<Meanwhile, now that Edward Snowden has sacrificed his life for freedom of speech and our right to privacy, the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution, the national media are falling all over themselves to prove their loyalty to the all-powerful government, lining up against their latest target.
Poor Edward Snowden. Running to Hong Kong and then Moscow will only help the government paint him as a bad guy, a traitor to America. He imagined that people in American really believed in the Constitution or in a government of laws. He thought we would care about the fact that our government leaders lie to Congress and the media. He imagined that we still have a free press, who can write and say what they believe, without direction from corporate owners who, like druggies in the inner city, now depend totally on government subsidies and easy Fed loans to sustain their empires.
And finally, one last thing remains to be known. If Edward Snowden is a spy, not a whistleblower, then for whom has he been spying? Russia? China? North Korea? Islamic fundamentalists?
No. He has been spying for us, the American people. He is our spy. He is the first American spy to be prosecuted by an American government. They will get him. And he will be locked away, and after the furor dies down, he may even be tortured by our government. He is like a Buddhist monk in Vietnam in the 1960s setting himself ablaze, signaling to the world that something is wrong here. He is a Paul Revere with an alarming message: The government is coming, the government is coming.>
http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/edward-snowdens-martyrdom/
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)i think snowjob is reaching the 13th minute of his 15 minutes of fame.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)but a good point was made about the subject being discussed so much people are getting fatigued about it.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)paul revere?
excuse me but i can`t stop
quinnox
(20,600 posts)reminds me of religion fundamentalist stuff.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)so far from the truth I just usually tell those sending the links they need to get a better source. Do I believe Snowden martyrdom, perhaps to those in the cause but I look on him as a scumbag thief who is charged with espionage. In 10 years who cares who Snowden was and what he did. Technology will change, get better and life goes on.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)He is a felonious criminal and doesn't deserve all the attention he is getting.
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davidpdx
(22,000 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)That's funny, so do a lot of people here.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Nobody minds "The government is coming, the government is coming..." when they're coming with your social security or medicare.
But wait...Snowden didn't like THOSE, either, now, did he?
Pfft.