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Noam Chomsky | Edward Snowden, the World's "Most Wanted Criminal"
Monday, 02 June 2014 09:46
By Noam Chomsky, Truthout | Op-Ed
In the past several months, we have been provided with instructive lessons on the nature of state power and the forces that drive state policy. And on a closely related matter: the subtle, differentiated concept of transparency.
The source of the instruction, of course, is the trove of documents about the National Security Agency surveillance system released by the courageous fighter for freedom Edward J. Snowden, expertly summarized and analyzed by his collaborator Glenn Greenwald in his new book, "No Place to Hide."
The documents unveil a remarkable project to expose to state scrutiny vital information about every person who falls within the grasp of the colossus - in principle, every person linked to the modern electronic society.
Nothing so ambitious was imagined by the dystopian prophets of grim totalitarian worlds ahead. ...............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/24071-noam-chomsky-edward-snowden-the-worlds-most-wanted-criminal
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Noam Chomsky | Edward Snowden, the World's "Most Wanted Criminal" (Original Post)
marmar
Jun 2014
OP
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)1. k&r thanks for posting. nm
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)2. While I agree with the Prof......
...this didn't start last week.
- Through omission or commission, this baby is ours. We did this. We let it happen.
K&R
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)3. Surveillance State
My grandmother would see the surveillance state to a predicator of internment camps or genocide. And she would know.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)4. The Defenders of this Surveillance are Wackos