Sunday, December 15, 2013

IS SNOWDEN A HERO? YOU DECIDE

Submitted by: Robert Cooper

Conservatives,

Thomas Drake, a 30-year 
intelligence professional who 
was a Senior Executive of NSA 
when he was surprised to find 
himself prosecuted for Espionage 
(treason), after going through 
all the "proper channels" to 
report the ongoing fraud, waste 
and the abuse of US Law, which 
he observed at his place of work.

He speaks eloquently about the 
explosive growth of the US' 
surveillance system in the post-9/11 
world, a system, which the dreaded 
and infamous "Stasi in East Germany 
would have drooled over." 
 
Ironically, the Stasi were the very 
group that it was Drake's job to spy 
on, as a pilot of an AWACS aircraft, 
during the Cold War.

He says that the very things that the 
US' current surveillance system is 
alleged to be defending, breaks the 
very laws which are the true defense 
of the United States, namely the 
Constitution and the Bill of Rights, 
which he says have now gotten "in 
the way" of this monstrous 
mechanism, which he believes will 
culminate in providing for neither 
security nor freedom nor for basic 
human rights.

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