A new hero, Edward Snowden, has come forward knowing it
would cost him his career, his friends and family, and even his country, but he
decided to become a whistleblower on the NSA and the spying tactics they were
abusing against our entire nation.
It's not just what they were doing, it's who they were (and
still are) doing it to. And it's not just the access they were awarding
themselves with being wrong, it's about
it being unconstitutional. Not to
mention unreasonable, especially with what they claim the reasons are for doing
it. Fighting terror. Just how much terror would it stop by being
able to read emails in the past, because we had communications ahead of 9/11
and that didn't seem to stop them, so my belief is none.
His revelation that "The NSA has been gathering all
internet data on everyone" should send shivers up and down your spine, but
I realize we are full of spineless Americans, and representatives.
People and representatives alike are saying shit like,
"I don't mind NSA tapping my phones and reading my emails if it catches
some terrorists, I am not doing anything wrong." Then You Participate! First of all, they are not tapping your phone
calls, they are recording and storing everything , and using it as a database
later to find whatever and whomever they want. I'm not that naive to think that being
innocent matters if you give a government (obviously a corrupted one) access to
your life, they will almost definitely take it from you in one way or
another. We are all assets or were
not.
Let me just end with this...What
happens when the government arrests you one day for a phone conversation you
had 15 years ago with a guy who was associated with terrorism. Don't think it will happen. If they do not plan to use it for past
crimes, what the fuck is the point?
