Suck it up, Snowden-haters: New Yorker on "Why Citizenfour Deserved Its Oscar"

[sabrina 1]

362. Yes, because something went terribly wrong with this democracy back then. And now it has gone

wrong again.

Snowden has paid a huge consequence for his patriotic decision to expose government malfeasance. No American Whistle Blower should have to make the sacrifices all Whistle Blowers will be making and have made, from now, if this country were still a democracy.

We have witnessed the silencing of Whistle Blowers over the past, more than a decade now, when they made the same decision to inform the public of what their government is up to.

Drake and Binney eg, went through all the channels supposed to protect Whistle Blowers. They believed back then, they had protections. They found out just how far gone things really are, worse than they had originally thought. To the point where their patriot acts resulted in the public NOT receiving the information they were entitled to.

So, now, having witnessed the treatment of Whistle Blowers, the goal still the same, to inform the public, a new strategy has emerged, and Drake, Ellsberg and Binney and all advocates for Whistle Blowers, AGREE that this is the ONLY way to inform the public. Because our democracy is now so damaged, the normal channels are no longer open to them.

Snowden has the full support of those whose main goal is and was to protect this democracy.

He is hated by those who have harmed this country and those who care only about maintaining the anti-Democratic Secret Government, set up by one of the worst, most criminal administrations in recent memory.

I am on the side of those who are working so hard to stop them from doing any harm to our rights and to this country.