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I read an article that I really found to be rather disturbing in the way it completely missed an important point. It wrote about the Three Journalist that broke the Snowden story and did interviews
regarding leaked documents of the highest "secrets" order/it went on to say how these guys had traveled around the world to get the stories. The various ways they stayed under cover and eluded any folks following them.
OK, I have no problem with that part of the story. It did take guts and a huge risk of losing all the rights to a future. I do not have a problem with the reporter/journalists receiving all or a portion of the notoriety for the stories.
I am in fact grateful for being informed of things not proven but just whispered by those previously labeled paranoid nut jobs.I guess They had eyes open wider than most of us...Perhaps
they might stand one day as madmen or visionaries that do not see the world as flat. The future will decide what Mr.Snowdens Title will be when it all plays out one day. Probably still buried under bureaucratic fertilizer as things hidden in the dark corners of our world have a tendency to do.
What I do have a problem with is the fact that if those documents had not been leaked, None of those
guys would have had any of the glory. The story was published by them and not Snowden.
Kinda like the Private that was apparently privy to secrets and was also the target for buggery on the
high seas of politics. The others danced off smelling like a rose and the private took a lifetime hit in the shorts.
I am rather confused by all this contorted reasoning. The guy who could not find sources to publish would never have been able to publish those documents. journalists publish government documents usually don't win awards. Just ask WIKI leaks folks. Yet the American with a conscience is hiding in a foreign country wondering if he did the right thing. Condemned and hunted as a fugitive. while awards are giving to those publishing documents are sleeping safely in their own beds tonight and are rewarded. This is the most puzzling.
Would any of us now fighting the illegal bugging of our lives have known if that problem even existed? When do you think any of us would have found out we no longer have any private moments.
Since most of us don't or have not been too concerned with what folks know about us, maybe never.
a life long file of our every move. I remember the ancient rule of war. When a courier/runner arrived at a friend or enemy encampment, there was a rule that you never killed the messenger as a return message could be sent back with the same messenger. Kill the messenger and the enemy knew they
should prepare for hostilities. We would have allowed our messenger to be hunted down and killed..
We need to place a little more attention paid to those who are trying to help us to stay free and not be so intent on a nice quick and clean lynching so we can just go home to mama and some good home cooking. They may just be trying to do the right thing when we do not have anywhere near all the facts.
Keep the Faith Friends
RJP
PS. Snowden's broadcast from Russia was censored from the U.S, citizens and has been pretty much
erased as to it ever existing. The other countries were better able to watch a program from a country invading another than from the country that claims to be free...There is something wrong with that picture.I would advise anyone looking for other videos of Assange/ Snowden to have some really good firewalls and the best antivirus(s) you can swing for the money. It appears that These folks are hunted with some reason that is spreading......Perhaps it was something THEY said?
KEEP THE FREEDOM DREAM ALIVE. THIS IS NOT A TEST IT IS REAL!
PSS: Yesterday this is 0/5/17/2019 The witch trials of President Trumps Election was stating there needs to be more transparent Governmental disclosure. The Democrats were and would have chased Mr.Snowden into a Black site or had him killed for trying to bring that transparency to tell of the spying planned into our private lives.
WE THE PEOPLE now find that the Democrats are also responsible for storing tens of thousands of the same types of classified documents for any hacker to see. Yet, There's no national death sentence, no driving the perpetrators out of the country.
I guess it is like the wildlife programs state when that lone zebra goes down by the lions. and others stop to watch. There's safety in the pack. Many who have read those Snowden papers say there really nothing dangerous in them except the fact that there is some factions that are P, od because the population found the dirty little secret out.
Meanwhile, an American that wanted that transparency is living in exile from what supposes to be the Land of the Free and the Brave.
AGAIN FRIENDS
RJP
