American - Activist | June 21, 1983 -
After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.
Edward Snowden
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The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.
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The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.
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Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him... the better off we all are.
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If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
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What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?
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All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
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We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.
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It's been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world, civil liberties activists who have said it's true that we have a right to at least know the broad outlines of what our government's doing in our name and what it's doing against us.
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Even though we may focus first on the rights of our own country, that does not mean that we should disregard the rights of everyone else.
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It's important that we elevate and primarily focus on the rights of American citizens, but it's also important that we don't forget, 95 percent of the world's population lives beyond our own borders.
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I never chose to be in Russia, and I would prefer to be in my own country, but if I can't make it home, I will continue to work very much in the same way that I have... What happens to me is not as important; I simply serve as the mechanism of disclosure.
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