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Coyotl

(15,262 posts) Wed Dec 25, 2013, 02:24 PM Dec 2013

CNN: Edward Snowden's Christmas Message

Last edited Wed Dec 25, 2013, 05:17 PM - Edit history (2)

Some of the Snowden YouTube videos have been blocked,
so I'm reposting this from another source.
These talkingheads don't know what they are talking about, obviously just winging it!

Dec 25, 2013

Edward Snowden delivers an "alternative" Christmas address on Britain's Channel 4, warning of a growing lack of privacy.

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CNN: Edward Snowden's Christmas Message (Original Post) Coyotl Dec 2013 OP

Links Coyotl Dec 2013 #1

DURec for the Whistle Blowers. bvar22 Dec 2013 #2

+ 1,000 cantbeserious Dec 2013 #5

Thanks for posting. I believe this was posted yesterday night. JDPriestly Dec 2013 #3

Interesting. They talk about everything but the truth of what Snowden is saying. JDPriestly Dec 2013 #4

knr Douglas Carpenter Dec 2013 #6

Those two vacuous heads pointed out hypocrisy, but they pointed in the wrong direction. 20score Dec 2013 #7

And don't seem to know that Snowden released his info this year, not years ago! LAME!!! Coyotl Dec 2013 #8

Yeah, that bothered me too. 20score Dec 2013 #9

CNN should do better than that. When they don't have a script it is revealing. Coyotl Dec 2013 #10

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

1. Links

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Dec 25, 2013, 02:25 PM

Dec 2013

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden warns of the dangers posed by loss of privacy in Channel 4's 'Alternative Christmas Message'

In two-minute video, Snowden spoke of future concerns over surveillance
Message has been broadcast since 1993 to mimic Queen's annual speech
Snowden became a wanted man seven months ago for leaking

By William Turvill http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529236/US-whistleblower-Edward-Snowden-delivers-alternative-Christmas-message.html?ico=ushome^headlines

Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed details of electronic surveillance by American and British spy services, warned of the dangers posed by a loss of privacy in a Channel 4's 'Alternative Christmas Message'.

In a two-minute video recorded in Moscow, where Snowden has been granted temporary asylum, he spoke of concerns over surveillance in an age of huge technological advancement.

'We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person,' he said.

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http://rt.com/news/snowden-christmas-alternative-tv-745/

The message starts with Snowden appealing to each and every family, warning them that the scope of government surveillance has gone to the extent that “a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all”.

As a former US Central Intelligence Agency employee, US National Security Agency contractor, and the person behind the biggest security leak in US history, Snowden gives his assessment of the classic bogey model of the Orwellian state as “nothing compared” to today's surveillance methods.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)

2. DURec for the Whistle Blowers.

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Dec 25, 2013, 03:23 PM

Dec 2013

They are the protectors of our Democracy.
No wonder they are hated by the Rich & Powerful,
and their water carriers.

Rampant Government Secrecy and Democracy can not co-exist.

Persecution of Whistle Blowers and Democracy can not co-exist.

Mass surveillance of the citizenry and Democracy can not co-exist.

I hope that I would have the courage to Do-the-Right-Thing in the same situation.
It would be so much easier to just:
do what you are told,
don't ask questions,
don't make any waves,
collect the paycheck,
go to the beach,
drink a 6 pack,
and rationalize it all away with "I got mine, fuck everybody else, this is not MY problem" thinking.
So. Much. Easier.

cantbeserious

(13,039 posts)

5. + 1,000

Reply to bvar22 (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 25, 2013, 04:49 PM

Dec 2013

eom

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)

3. Thanks for posting. I believe this was posted yesterday night.

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Dec 25, 2013, 03:47 PM

Dec 2013

Everyone should hear what he has to say. Prescient.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)

4. Interesting. They talk about everything but the truth of what Snowden is saying.

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Dec 25, 2013, 04:19 PM

Dec 2013

Now that is an example of subtle censorship.

I heard Snowden's entire speech posted elsewhere on DU last night. It is powerful and compelling. But it appears that thus far, his speech is being silenced.

We are living in a totalitarian state. Our so-called "democracy" is apparently a complete sham.

I guess we have to go to RT to get free news media. That is a shameful turn of events. I remember living in Europe and listening to Radio Free Europe (American broadcasting) and the BBC for the news. It is ironic that Snowden's full speech uninterrupted is not being broadcast on the "free" media in our country. I think Americans need to hear what Snowden has said.

These women are applying the distraction technique to avoid seeing the gorilla in their newsroom.

One of these days they will wake up, feel the chains on their legs and ask themselves what happened: "When did I lose my freedom to speak?"

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)

6. knr

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Dec 25, 2013, 06:13 PM

Dec 2013

20score

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7. Those two vacuous heads pointed out hypocrisy, but they pointed in the wrong direction.

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Dec 25, 2013, 06:14 PM

Dec 2013

We're the supposed champions of freedom - it is the US government and the newly minted fascists defending the indefensible who are the hypocrites.

Thank you Edward Snowden.