Generation W (Whistleblowers), Ages 18 - 34, Believes Snowden Did a Good Thing

According to a thoughtful "opinionator" September 15 commentary in the New York Times (NYT), Northwestern University Philosophy Professor Peter Kudlow refers to a TIME article this summer that found "70 percent of those age 18 to 34 sampled in a poll said they believed that Snowden 'did a good thing' in leaking the news of the National Security Agency’s [NSA] surveillance program."

It took a threatened war with Syria, the imminent possible shutdown of the federal government, and the GOP getting high on trying to starve people to take the attention off the Obama administration's obsession with capturing Edward Snowden.

Snowden provided little data that would help any "enemy" of the US, but he embarrassed the White House and permanent DC elite establishment by revealing the extent of illegal and legal US surveillance far beyond the stated goal of stopping terrorism. What Snowden offered up on a platter, through primarily a foreign paper -- the Guardian UK -- was the evidence that the US is spying on its own citizens, spying for international political purposes even on friendly heads of state, spying to help corporations (of course, including the fossil fuel industry) to gain global competitive advantage, and for many other purposes that exceed President Obama's claim that the NSA only protects the national security of the United States.

Foremost, the Obama administration, following the long established history of the DC surveillance strategy, has been using ever-advancing technology to basically spy ubiquitously, regardless of objective, just to build up a data base in case anything was needed down the line -- for any corporate/government purpose. It's kind of the model of the KGB and East German Stasi.

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