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

[w. lotus (from livejournal.com)]

That is an astute summary of the fiasco.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.