I COMPLETELY support Snowden.

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162. The problem with Snowden is

His inconsistence words and then actions. For example. In the video he made Before he left Hong Kong he said the following.

“I don’t want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.”

He then tried to apply for asylum in the very countries that continually do that. To give you an example, he applied for asylum in Russia, and China. Are you going to tell me that they don't spy on their people? Well you might argue that there is no evidence of that and that's fair. But he also applied for asylum in Germany in which he said that the N.S.A is spying on Germany. The Germans turned him down for his request for asylum. Then he released the following.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/nsa-in-bed-with-german-intelligence-says-us-whistleblower-edward-snowden--and-gchq-operates-a-full-take-data-monitoring-system-8693793.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/edward-snowden-accuses-germany-of-aiding-nsa-in-spying-efforts-a-909847.html

Also from the video interview he said the following.


“I think the government’s going to say I’ve committed grave crimes and violated the espionage act and aided our enemies in making us aware of these systems.”

Well, what do you call it when you take or more appropriately Steal government computers with Top Secret Classified information on it and is was capable of connecting with classified government servers and flee to a Communist Country and have conversations with that government's official?

But here's the thing that bothers me the most about him. He said that the did this because HE determined that the people should decide on whether collection of records is appropriate? He didn't actually say that the NSA was breaking the law at least I didn't hear it. In fact, the documents that he took also contained Rules and Procedures in which the NSA has to follow to obtain a FISA warrant to collect such public data which is meta data. In other words the rules and procedures were written to PROTECT the privacy and the 4th Amendments of each American. He did NOT show any evidence that any laws were broken. He was just opposed of having meta data collected. The NSA is an intelligent agency. Like many other country, they have to analyze information. They are charged to keeping us safe. We may not like the methods but there isn't any proof that any laws were broken. You had oversight from the intelligence committee of Congress. You have the courts involved in issuing warrants. The the collection of data was meta data which is NOT a violation of the 4th amendment because we don't own the meta data. He knows that or should know that if he is as intelligent as everyone makes him out to be. Who knows what kind of top secret information he took and what the Russians and Chinese know? All this just because he didn't like it.

two other quotes .

from the video:
“I joined the intelligence community when I was very young…and I believed in the nobility of our intentions to free oppressed people overseas.”

from his interview with the South China Morning Post:
Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who leaked information on the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, says he sought the job with Booz Allen Hamilton to gather evidence on the agency's data collection networks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/edward-snowden-booz-allen-hamilton_n_3491203.html

Again whistleblowers show evidence of law breaking and not showing the world what YOU don't like.