Turnkey Tyranny

In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, the greatest American whistleblower of all, and carrying on the honorable tradition of civil disobedience practiced by the likes of Thoreau, Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., Edward Snowden has put his freedom and his life at enormous risk simply by shining a spotlight on what our government is doing. Revealing the "architectural repression" that's been put in place. The "turnkey tyranny" ready for the next Underminer-in-Chief-of-the-Rule-of-Law. What did he gain for his "crime" of revealing the government's sweeping crimes against its citizens? A lifetime of watching his back -- but with a clean conscience. Quite unlike the majority of those in Washington, D.C. As far as Citizen Mofo is concerned, Edward Snowden is a true patriot and a courageous and righteous hero of civil disobedience in the face of great wrong.

Edward Snowden interviewed in Hong Kong:

'When you're in positions of privileged access like a systems administrator for these intelligence community agencies, you're exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale than the average employee. And, because of that, you see things that may be disturbing. But over the course of a normal person's career you'd only see one or two of these instances. When you see everything, you see them on a more frequent basis. And you recognize that some of these things are actually abuses. Over time, that awareness of wrongdoing builds up, and you feel compelled to talk about it. And the more you talk about it, the more you're ignored, the more you're told it's not a problem, until eventually you realize these things need to be determined by the public, not by someone who was simply hired by the government.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you're being watched and recorded.

And the storage capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude. It's getting to the point where you don't have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.

The gravest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures, is that nothing will change.

People will see in the media all of these disclosures, they'll know the lengths that the government is going to grant themselves powers unilaterally to create greater control over American society and global society.

But they won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things, to force their representatives to actually take a stand in their interests.'


EDWARD SNOWDEN DID HIS PART.
NOW WE NEED TO DO OURS.