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> In a country with little or no place to gather for the free expression of ideas and no place to talk politics without fear of repression Edward Snowden revea
by firstOrder 12y ago
> In a country with little or no place to gather for the free expression of ideas and no place to talk politics without fear of repression
Edward Snowden revealed that the USA was monitoring its citizens and storing that data in a way that far outstrips anything the KGB was ever capable of. Should he fear repression? He should, the government wants to lock him up and throw away the key for revealing this, just like they did to Manning for what he revealed. Actually, NPR spends most of its time bashing Snowden.
They seem gaga for dissidence in some foreign country, in a government that hasn't existed for over two decades though.
- vvpan 12y agoNPR bashing Snowden? Don't listen to it, but I'm very surprised.
- electronous 12y ago> just like they did to Manning for what he revealed. She, not he
- Dylan16807 12y ago'he' at the time, dysphoria nonwithstanding.
- electronous 12y agoThat's not how it works, bigot
- Dylan16807 12y agoReferring to someone's past actions using their preferred pronouns at the time of those actions is bigotry? Gosh, better inform all those contemporary news articles that they're retroactively disrespectful.
- mseebach 12y agoWithout defending the NSA excesses, the difference is in the repression, not the monitoring. There is little evidence that the NSA monitoring was used for repression of citizens, and even less evidence of the sort of repression that was rampant in the Soviet bloc.
- olifante 12y agonice blindfolds you have there. Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the largest prison population by far among rich countries, institutionalized rape, drone executions without a shred of legal process, militarized police and you're still making excuses for what was not so long ago the beacon of modern civilization and democracy.
- p1esk 12y agoNow compare things you mentioned with a social climate where the entire country is one big prison, North Korea style. Can't imagine life like that? Yeah, I thought so.
- Zigurd 12y agoDo you think that people who want fundamental change in the US are not harassed and repressed, and their activities criminalized?
- Macsenour 12y agoI don't feel repressed in any way and I have the freedom of speech, by law, that repressed people do not. Comparing those two is an insult to those that lived in the Soviet era.
- Zigurd 12y agoYou are advocating for fundamental change in America? Or just some tax cuts? Mostly, things are under control here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/princeton-scholar-demise-of-democracy-america-tpm-interview http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/princeton-scholar-demise-of-...