Edward Snowden: The NSA Whistleblower

Interview of Snowden in Honk Kong, hours after NSA surveillance is leaked.

With the news lately being filled with mindless stories, one story I have followed is the recent NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who released surveillance files, in which the NSA had 'direct access to even the government's email if you had a personal address' says Snowden in an interview.

Snowden was a NSA employee who released massive amounts of information regarding US national security, in which the US government has been collecting phones numbers and the owner's personal information since bush administration.

According to Julian Assage (a recent whistle blower to) said in a recent interview with Sky news that Snowden was a hero because 'the US government has obtained 2 billion files in the month of March this year alone.'
Whether this number is a stat or not it is still astonishing.  Let me ask you this, are you comfortable with the US government having all your personal information which you have shared online on a network stored away in Washington D.C. (or for this matter any corporation)?  I mean everything you've ever liked on Facebook, or sent as a direct message on Twitter, or your banking information?  All of it?  Why would anyone ever need all of that information?  I mean its weird enough already if you know someone who had a Facebook account that has died and still has an account up? Think of that but that the government could have all of that, and your family's personal info?

I'm not sure I am comfortable with it at all.  The government should have no weight over an individual’s freedom.  What if, hypothetically the government wanted to steal money from your bank accounts?  Or know where you are going to be on Saturday, every Saturday for the rest of your life, and make an innocent life look guilty? I don't know about you but, I've made mistakes in the past, possibly broken the law but I don't think that I deserve to go to jail for it or be fined.

Besides most of the laws that are passed are to keep the system of taxation and suppression going throughout the world.  Many laws, aside from the obvious one don't kill your fellow being aren't necessary for humans to live life.  We struggle with this one still. Because although violence in any form is not said to be allowed to happen, I still see it is usually apparent in most schools in the form of bullying and in the cafeterias , we serve dead cows, and chicken that have been violently tortured worldwide for our mere pleasure. I heard through a reliable source that humans have murdered 170 million or so other humans in the 20th century alone.

So I think that Edward Snowden, made a choice, and I don't think he should be punished by those who stand something to lose (power) for exposing their unconscious behavior when Edward was in the simple pursuit to expose what he thought to be a basic human liberty. I don't think that anyone should punish him. I don't feel like two-wrongs make a right to be cliché.

Taken From:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/google-seeks-approval-to-disclose-more-numbers-linked-to-nsa-news-1.1321207

Google seeks approval to disclose more numbers linked to NSA news

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Published Tuesday, June 11, 2013 3:13PM EDT
Last Updated Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:45PM EDT