"I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people all around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building." ~ Edward Joseph Snowden
Wikileaks: What Joseph has revealed is what I have been sounding the alarm about for years, that the US Nationalist Security Agency are guilty of a mass interception program of Twitter, Google, Facebook, the various telecommunications data. Joseph is a hero who has informed the public about one of the most egregious crimes of the millenia, which is the creeping formulation of a mass surveillance state. We run the danger here of the West more broadly drifting into becoming a totalitarian state where there are no systems. There’s no law for the average person inside the nationalist intelligence complex, where you can intercept whoever you want, you’re completely unaccountable for your actions, there’s no judicial review. Joseph clearly didn’t find that acceptable and he was even someone in the system. The criminal US government is in in the throes of a calamitous collapse in the rule of law.
"I think that the public is owed an explanation of the motivations behind the people who make these disclosures that are outside the Democratic model. When you are subverting the Power of Government, that’s a fundamentally dangerous thing to Democracy. At the same time, you have to make a determination about what it is that’s important to you and if living unfreely is something you’re willing to accept against the public interest; if you realize that that’s the world you helped create and it’s gonna get worse for the generation who extend the capabilities of this architecture of oppression, you realize that you might be willing to accept any Risk. It doesn’t matter what the outcome is, so long as the public gets to make their own decisions. What would it take to make you leave everything behind? The U.S. has become tyrannical. You can shut down the surveillance system in an afternoon." ~ Edward Joseph Snowden
