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Edward Snowden : TIME’s Silver Medalist

Posted: January 10, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
12/30/2013

The 2013 Person of the Year issue of TIME magazine starts off with a literary hand job to the new pope. It uses quotes, pictures, and charts to shill to Catholics, namely Latino Catholics, to please buy TIME magazine because they love the new Pope. Truth be told, I like the new Pope too, ever since he publicly shit all over Reganomics/Trickle Down Economics. Its a like not a love because of the whole, you know, child molestation cover up thang. I know, I know he didn’t preside over it, but like Chase bank inherited the obligations of Bear Stearns…..

Anyhow, with the Pope getting the gold medal for Person of the Year, it certainly came as a shock that Edward Snowden came in second. The bronze went to Edith Windsor, the winning plantiff in the case that made it to the Supreme Court that enabled same sex marriage nationally.

To be fair to TIME, all three received the same treatment. The articles were each robust with pictures, statistics, graphs, charts, a listing of pros and cons of each POY candidate. Whoever at the magazine came up with the title Edward Snowden, The Dark Prophet is the person who gets my POY nomination.

If you can’t handle a long form piece, skip the the part of the article that highlights his direct quotes to understand Snowden and why he did what he did in his own words. Getting his perspective from his own words without being limited to the initial Guardian video is refreshing. It may not sway you to his side, because if you aren’t on his side, then you’re likely too old to be reading this blog or even knowing what one is.

#Obama shows there’s No Clemency for Real #Change

Posted: November 8, 2013 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
11/7/2013

“Citizens have to fight against the suppression of information about affairs of essential importance for the public,” he wrote. “Those who speak the truth are not committing a crime.”  Edward Snowden from “A Manifesto for the Truth” in German newspaper Der Spiegel published at the same time President Barack Obama denied the NSA whistleblower’s appeal for clemency.

This despite acknowledgement from both houses of the legislative branch and the executive branch of the United States government that his revelations have brought about a necessary dialogue and policy revision(s).  Legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives to peel back and/or halt the massive data collection of the National Security Agency.  The author of the Patriot Act that enabled the NSA metadata collection addiction has called for a re write to halt current and prevent future massive data trove collection.  Does this sound like change brought about by a traitor denied clemency?

If Snowden brought about these healthy democratic changes, why would he be denied clemency? Is it because he “stole” digital government documents?  Daniel Ellsberg isn’t living abroad, disallowed from entering the continental United States.  Is it because of his whistle blowing? Or is it perhaps because the presidents or prime ministers of Brazil, Germany, Mexico, and Spain have accused the United States and the NSA of assaulting each country’s sovereignty with their massive metadata collection.  Or in the case of Germany, tapping into the phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Ask yourself, is Edward Snowden being denied clemency because he did something wrong? Or is he being denied clemency for causing international blowback for the United States government.  Is he being denied clemency for making it harder for the United States to secretly break international laws and Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution?  If he did something so wrong, why is another member of the United Nations and G8 willing to grant him asylum?

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