Edward Snowden

[poliphilo]

Governments are in an international club that privileges the interests of the governors over those of the governed.  The Snowden case demonstrates just how this works. A very powerful government has been caught spying on the people of the world and suffers embarrassment, so all the other governments crowd round to cover its backside- even though their own citizens have been wronged- and the person who revealed the crime becomes a pariah.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Also, by making the NSA case all about Snowden it takes the spotlight off the real culprit, the NSA. Right-thinking folks should stop talking about "the Snowden case" and call it by its proper name. We didn't call the Pentagon Papers Case the Ellsworth Case, after all...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We seem to have gone backwards on this issue over the past 30 or 40 years. Once the media saw it as its job to keep government honest and expose wrongdoing. Now it sides with government against the whistle-blowers.

[w. lotus (from livejournal.com)]

That is an astute summary of the fiasco.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.