Edward Snowden is a spy working for the National Security Administration or the National Spy Organization. He is also a hero for risking his life for our freedom. He disclosed the NSA’s ability to store vast amounts of personal information on every American citizen. This is a bomb that threatens the freedom of all of us. The point is the technology to spy on every human being is here. It has the terrifying potential to enslave everybody not only in the United States but worldwide.
The US may be the most advanced in data surveillance but it’s not the only country that collects personal information about its people. We have learned that developed countries also use modern technology to spy on one another and their own citizens. Snowden quizzed President Putin on Russian television about his surveillance program. He said it was for Putin’s note to open a discussion on this matter. The next day Snowden noted that the Russian government had requested bulk data from social media companies. This suggests that Putin is not telling the reality, Russia is engaged in sophisticated surveillance.
This technology will benefit international terrorist groups even although it is going to be much more dangerous in the hands of government leaders around the globe. These leaders had the means to use their power to covertly remove any dissidents before they made their move. This would allow them to increase the intensity of the repression without provoking any reactions.
Snowden said in The Guardian, “I blow the whistle on the NSA’s surveillance practices not because I believe the United States is uniquely guilty, but because I believe that mass surveillance of innocent people – the construction of a state-run surveillance time machine that can turn back time.” … in the most intimate detail of our lives- is a threat to everybody everywhere, whoever runs it.
Turning back the clock on anyone can be used to create negative narratives to destroy anyone, even saints. Law-abiding citizens who have been labeled “persons of interest” by the state will be powerless. Officials will have the ability to return in time by selecting certain sayings of the past. It’s terrible.
Even today’s politically incorrect speech or behavior has caused immense pain and suffering. These people who exercise freedom of speech and association are forced to endure re-education (sensitivity training) to be returned to their position to stop their persecution. Mozilla CEO Donald Stirling—owner of the LA Clippers, popular chef—Paula Deen and Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, and lots of others have suffered from free speech. The deception of these famous people was less inhibiting and terrifying than the NSA’s ability to use everybody’s private thoughts against them. This would naturally lead to censorship of our speeches for fear of prosecution and persecution.
Edward Snowden learned that Thomas Drake, an NSA whistleblower, had raised his concerns to a congressional committee in 2005. He was investigated by the FBI and charged with 10 felonies. His government career was ruined and his life changed eternally. Despite knowing this information, Snowden said he had repeatedly raised constitutional concerns about NSA oversight. NSA e-mail, April 8, 2013 to the NSA general board office verifying that he raised this issue. At that time Snowden knew that more whistleblowers under the Obama administration were suffering serious disastrous consequences than any other administration.
Snowden knows that personal discussion should be protected by the First Amendment for good reason. Conveying ideas is an important process needed to formulate one’s thoughts and beliefs. Without one’s security of knowing one’s thoughts will remain private one will stop talking and thinking.
The NAZI, the Soviet Union, and other primitive totalitarian states exercised fear of the state. They only had primitive methods of instilling fear of country into people’s minds by raiding homes or torturing others to frighten them into submission. Belief in individual freedom is shattered by these unsophisticated practices that leave behind a lackluster people and evil governments.
The United States and others have preserved all of one’s most intimate words and thoughts. Whoever becomes the target of the state will have their information exploited by bureaucratic experts. This would automatically make them guilty of whatever the state wanted to prove.
Allowing the NSA or any other state surveillance program to continue operations would definitely be too tempting not to be hired by a usurping leader. This level of surveillance is the most powerful Weapon of Freedom Destruction (WFD) the world has ever faced.
The United States and other countries must incorporate checks and balances of strong, fail-safe measures to stop this totalitarian time bomb and stop it from happening in the future.
In the name of preventing terrorism there isn’t any security/freedom exchange under the supervision of all citizens. When the national government can spy on all its citizens, it becomes a potential terrorist. These national leaders have the ultimate WFD to build a global totalitarian hell.
Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a newspaper featured columnist, author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a university preparatory program.
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