He sounded the alarm to the public. In response, the government is bringing down the full weight of the state against him.
If they are not doing anything wrong, what do they have to hide?
When this happens in a country not allied with the United States, the U.S. government calls out that country as authoritarian and outrageously repressive to its citizens.
They speak words of freedom and democracy while spying on whole populations, assassinating people at will and torturing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
The U.S. has indicted Snowden on three felony charges under the 1917 Espionage Act, for "unauthorized communication of national defense information," "willful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person," and "theft of government property." Each charge carries ten years in prison -- potentially life in prison if there are multiple counts of each.
He is the eighth person charged in the Obama Administration's war on whistle-blowers.
Snowden said recently in response to a question about U.S. government efforts to suppress him: "All I can say right now is the U.S. Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped."
Which will it be? The continued persecution of truth-tellers by Official Liars or the truth made plain to the world and the sweeping away of these truly obscene actions by the United States?
The hour is late but it is not too late to act.
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