"All
governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
-I. F. Stone
Snowden
and National Security
By
de Andréa,
Opinion Editorialist for
‘THE BOTTOM LINE’
Published September 23, 2016
Whether
you believe Edward James Snowden is a hero a patriot, or a whistleblowing
traitor guilty of espionage, or possibly some other label that the Soros
manipulated media has assigned to him, he in fact is a very patriotic, intelligent,
caring and articulate 33 year old man. Which is likely why the communist media has
demonized him to the extent that they have.
If one only hears the negative side of the truth one will have been
negatively programed with such one sided indoctrination that one quite possibly
can no longer stand up straight. Which
is the whole premise for Snowden’s dramatic actions. The constitutional balance of power between
the governed and their representative government.
Born in North
Carolina in 1983, into a family of American patriots, his father was in the
military and a mother who still works for the federal court in Baltimore. After his education mostly in high-tech
computer technology, Snowden
eventually landed a job in 2006 as an information-technologist at the Central
Intelligence Agency. In 2009 he worked for the National Security Agency through subcontractor
Booz Allen in the organization's Oahu office.
Blowing the Whistle
During his years of IT work, Snowden had noticed the far reach of the NSA's
everyday, and expanding mass surveillance. While working for Booz Allen, Snowden
began copying top-secret NSA documents, building a dossier on practices that he
found invasive, disturbing and downright unconstitutional. The documents
contained vast information on NSA's domestic massive intrusive surveillance
practices.
After bringing this concern to the attention of his coworkers and
subsequently to his superiors, only to be ignored and threatened with
disciplinary action. He then compiled a large store of documents that addressed
the issues of illegal invasion of privacy with no purpose other than they
could. Snowden then took a leave of absence and on May 20, 2013, took a flight
to Hong Kong, China, where he remained as he orchestrated a secret meeting with
journalists from the U.K. publication The
Guardian as well as filmmaker Laura Poitras. On June
5, The Guardian released
secret documents obtained from Snowden. These documents, showed the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court implementation of an order that required
Verizon to release information to the NSA on an "ongoing, daily
basis" culled from its American customers' phone activities. This was more
than the claimed metadata. There were personal photos and conversations, and
texts thought to be private between two individuals.
The following day, The
Guardian and The
Washington Post released Snowden's leaked information on PRISM, an
NSA program that allows real-time information collection electronically. A
flood of information followed, and both domestic and international debate
ensued.
Immediate Aftermath
"I'm willing to sacrifice my former life because I can't in good
conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and
basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance
machine they're secretly building," Snowden said in interviews
given from his Hong Kong hotel room. One of the people he left behind was his
girlfriend Lindsay Mills. The pair had been living together in Hawaii, and she
reportedly had no idea that he was about to disclose classified information to
the public.
The U.S. government soon responded to Snowden's disclosures. On June 14,
2013, federal prosecutors charged Snowden with "theft of government Property," "unauthorized
communication of national defense information" and "willful
communication of classified communications intelligence information to an
unauthorized person." The last two charges fall under the Espionage
Act, originally designed to prevent the sale of classified and sensitive
information to a foreign government, which Snowden didn’t do. Before President Barack Obama took office, the
act had only been used for prosecutorial purposes three times since 1917. Since
President Obama took office, the act has been invoked seven times as of June
2013.
Snowden remained in hiding for slightly more than a month. He initially
planned to relocate to Ecuador for asylum, but, upon making a stopover, he
became stranded in a Russian airport for a month when his passport was annulled
by the American government. The Russian government denied U.S. requests to
extradite Snowden. While some decried him as a traitor, others supported his
cause, and more than 100,000 people signed an online petition asking President
Obama to pardon Snowden by late June.
Despite the offer of asylum in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia. Snowden
soon made up his mind, expressing an interest in staying in Russia. One of his
lawyers, Anatoly Kucherena, stated that Snowden would seek temporary asylum in
Russia.
That October, Snowden stated that he no longer possessed any of the NSA
files that he leaked to press. He gave the materials to the journalists he met
with in Hong Kong, but he didn't keep copies for himself. Snowden explained
that "it wouldn't serve the public interest" for him to have brought
the files to Russia, according to The
New York Times. Around this time, Snowden's father, Lon, visited
his son in Moscow and continued to publicly express support.
Living
in Exile
In November 2013, Snowden's request to the U.S. government for clemency
was rejected. The fallout from his disclosures continued to unfold over the
next few months, including a battle over the illegal collection of phone data
by the NSA. President Obama sought to calm fears over government spying in
January 2014, ordering U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to review the
country's surveillance programs.
In a CNN interview. Snowden explained that he viewed himself as a
patriot, believing his actions had beneficial results. He stated that his
leaking of information led to "a robust public debate" and "new
protections in the United States and abroad for our rights to make sure they're
no longer violated." He also expressed an interest in returning home to
America.
"When the decisions that rule us are taken in secret, we lose the
power to control and govern ourselves. “Said Snowden. Snowden has remained outspoken about
government surveillance. He appeared with Poitras and Greenwald via video-conference
in February 2015. Earlier that month, Snowden spoke with students at Upper
Canada College via video-conference. He told them that "the problem with mass
surveillance is when you collect everything, you understand nothing."
He also stated that government spying on its own citizens "fundamentally changes the
balance of power between the citizen and the state."
THE
BOTOM LINE: I
told you all that, to tell you this:
All
this top/high security in the United States in the name of fighting terrorism,
is totally unnecessary. First, it is
obviously not working, because we still have Jihadist terrorist’s attacks of
all kinds. As a matter of fact the U.S. government, i.e. the administration as
well as the congress has actually ‘created’ the need’ for all the extreme security
that isn’t working.
But
what has’ been at least somewhat successful, is the mass surveillance of
otherwise innocent Americans for purposes other than security. Information
which can be used against us at some later date. We already know the FBI randomly reads blogs
like this one, as well as emails looking for certain key red-flag words such
as, gun – bomb – secret - explode – kill
– shoot – stab – drugs - hijack – attack, and the like. If one uses any of these words no matter how
innocent just as I did here, they could and will be investigated and brought up
on charges at some later date by another administration when whatever was
written or said, may then be against the law.
We have all seen laws change, so what was legal yesterday is illegal
today, example, illegal and unconstitutional gun laws, now making criminals’
out of otherwise innocent law abiding citizens who are just exercising their
God given rights.
Earlier,
I said the Government actually created the need’ for mass sophisticated
surveillance. And they could also eliminate’ the need for it, just as
easily. If you think about it, the need that
in the past never existed, is created by the crime of TERRORISM. Which is committed
by Muslims who are doing nothing but practicing their ideology of violent
subjugation in a culture of freedom. A square peg in a round hole doesn’t even
come close to an analogy of a culture so opposed to our own, that assimilation
of Islam into western culture is just not in any way possible. The existing western culture will give way to
Islam and Sharia, it always has throughout history. The only alternative is if Islam is
eliminated or extracted in some way.
The
unacceptable action of terrorism in America was created when the government
invited the source’ of terrorism into this country. Prior to the mass immigration of Muslims
there was little or no terrorism of the kind we experience today. Even though the U.S. has been at war with
Islam, in some form or another, since 1801 in the Jefferson administration with
the Barberry Corsairs of the Ottoman Regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, along with
independent Morocco. In Tripoli Jefferson so devastated the Muslim pirates,
that the attacks on our ships were all but eliminated until recent times.
Side Note: The Ottoman Empire was brought to an end
in 1924 after the First World War, but only four years later in 1928 it was
reborn as the Muslim Brotherhood of which Obama is a protector and supporting
member, and consequently it operates with impunity in America.
So just create more and more extreme security
on everyone and ban guns from the masses…
Terrorism didn’t come to our
soil until 1993 with the first attack on the twin towers. We did nothing in retaliation for the attack
but what we did do was to continue the invitation of the very people who
attacked us. They continued to pour into our country by the thousands until
less than a decade later, in 2001, with the help of the Saudi’s, our so-called
allies, they attacked and completely destroyed the twin towers and then ’we
invited even more Muslim jihadists into the country until as in Europe, terrorist
attacks are now becoming normal and expected. The response…more security.
As
I said the government created the need…get rid of the Islamic Jihadist, and we
get rid of the need for the extreme security and mass surveillance but then
that would be counterproductive for the shadow government. Personally I absolutely resent all the
security that I must be subjected to at airports or nearly any government
building these days, just because we the government blindly and unabatedly
allow the enemy of the free world to flood into this once safe and free
Republic. It is tantamount to inviting
Nazis into the U.S. in 1943. Only the peaceful Nazis of course…
Snowden
recognized that real law abiding patriotic Americans were having their rights,
privacy, and personal freedoms illegally compromised in defense of a threat
that the government created, so we are already losing our rights, dignity and
culture of freedom in the name of safety against an enemy that the U.S.
government had foisted upon us.
This
is reminiscent of Hitler’s burning of the Reichstag where he had the government
buildings set on fire so he could blame the Communists thereby creating the
need for the extreme action by his security forces of the S.A. Stormtroopers.
As a result the people lost all their freedom in the name of safety from the
created and orchestrated threat. Everyone became subjected to brutal and
otherwise illegal searches and seizures as well as murders.
I
hope your see the parallel.
"They
that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)
“If you
want good security, go to prison, you will have everything you could want
except freedom” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
If
you are really interested in what is actually going on in the shadow government
of the so-called security agencies, and/or want the truth about who Edward
Snowden really is, and what he actually did on your behalf and why. Then below are a series of speeches,
interviews and a documentary of what actually occurred back in 2013 and why.
Some are short, some are lengthy, but you will receive an education about the
side of the story you never heard from the Soros communist controlled media.
The
documentary 1 hour:
Snowden’s
back ground and philosophy 1 hour 10 minutes:
Guardian
interview in Russia 14 minutes:
Live
from Russia, Instate of Politics, 1 hour 12 minutes:
Thanks
for listening my friend!
-
de Andréa
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