Edward Snowden, True Hope for Change [View all]

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/16-9



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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'.

Snowden’s 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?