by SANDIP DAS VERMA
I was shocked – I don’t know if you were – when it came out that President Obama is following the same policy as they sneaky Bush and Crooked Cheney. It will be nice to discuss what you think about revelation.
My opinion is more Gandhian – if you want to stand up and be counted for your values- you should be willing to face the consequences. Bechause then the contradiction will come out and people will jump in to support YOU. Like they did during civil rights movement and apartheid.
More recently – when the LGBT people came out or outed themselves – the opponents including Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) changed.
But that is my opinion.
The following article discusses the impact of acts of Edward Snowden and it’s positive implications.
Are you with me? Let us discuss what in the earth you think about this earth shattering revelation and courageous first act of this young man.
Sandip Das Verma can be reached at sandip.kumar.dasverma@gmail.com
The doubters are wrong: Edward Snowden is a game-changer
by KEVIN DRUM
One of the arguments about Edward Snowden that I’ve occasionally gotten caught up in is: What difference has he made? Has he really told us very much we didn’t know before?
In a broad sense, you can argue that he hasn’t. We knew (or certainly suspected) that NSA was collecting enormous streams of telephone metadata. We knew they were issuing subpoenas for data from companies like Google and Microsoft. We knew that Section 702 warrants were very broad. We knew that domestic data sometimes got inadvertently collected. We knew that massive amounts of foreign phone and email traffic were monitored.
As it happens, we’ve learned more than just this from the documents on Snowden’s four laptops. Still, even if you accept this argument in general terms—and I’ve made it myself—Snowden still matters. It’s one thing to know about this stuff in broad strokes. It’s quite another to have specific, documented details. That’s what Snowden has given us, and it makes a big difference in public debate. A Quinnipiac University poll released this week demonstrates this vividly. Three years ago, only 25 percent of Americans thought the government had gone too far in its anti-terrorism efforts. Policywise, nothing much has changed since then, but in 2013 that number has shot up to 45 percent.
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