Something
hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of
the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's
a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab. It's a miniature
rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the
rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little
individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's
left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is
that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state
is going to go.
So
I said, call me Trimtab.
--Richard
Buckminster Fuller
Who
is Edward Snowden?
Actions speak louder than words, and by his actions alone
Edward Snowden has proved himself to be a real American Hero, a Patriot and somebody
worthy of being called a Citizen of the World. The sheer amount of personal risk he took was
by no means trivial, and the reason he took it for makes it even more
significant. I know some people are doubting his credentials and motives now,
but it only exemplifies how cynical and cruel we - our current so-called “civilization”
- has become. I’ve read his posts
on Arstechnica, and to me he just comes across a
normal kid of our generation who’s sick and tired of the corrupt and decaying
system – the only difference being that he had the courage to do something
about it. Moreover, the fact that he’s
being hounded
by the western global leadership only further goes to prove that he’s done
NOTHING wrong. He put his and his family’s life on the hook just so millions
could benefit. He had the courage and conviction to stand up to the most
powerful government and military force in the world on the grounds of principle
alone. He EXACTLY represents what America was and is all about – an individual
standing up against tyranny, an individual standing up for his beliefs - and he
is doing EXACTLY what the Constitution of the United States demands of its
Citizens. And instead of hailing him as a patriot for being a defender the
Constitution, many in the public are calling him a traitor. Indeed:
Every
nation gets the government it deserves.
--Joseph
de Maistre
So far people of the United States have shown to be
extremely deserving of their current government.
The morons and mafia agents in Congress (who, by the
way, had special exemptions for themselves from NSA surveillance – the mind
BOGGLES at the SHEER HYPOCRISY here) decrying Edward’s actions as treasonous
are themselves guilty of treason. They have utterly and completely FAILED to
uphold the Constitution of the United States. Read the following from the Declaration
of Independence and tell me if we are in a different
situation today or if Edward’s actions were not aligned with what the
Constitution required of him (or all of us, for that matter):
We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it
is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and
to provide new Guards for their future security.
(All emphasis mine)
The oppressive regime of the current US Government -
running an increasingly violent global empire whose sole aim is to exploit
people for the personal benefit of the few - exactly fits the definition
of the type of Government the founding fathers were trying to overthrow.
Ironically, the ONLY saving grace for the US in this
whole fiasco is probably the fact that Edward Snowden is an American. If the
founding fathers were alive today, no doubt it would pain them greatly to
witness the transformation of the country they founded into all out tyrannical
dictatorship. But seeing Americans like Ed Snowden exist, seeing the words they
wrote hundreds of years ago continue to inspire and enlighten people in current
generations , they would know they had done something right – that their
efforts had not gone completely in vain. Edward, we salute you proudly brother,
and wish that there are more like you in America and all other countries around
the world who have the guts to stand up to increasingly fascist (but
proclaiming themselves to be “democratic”) governments. Have no doubts, you
have done the right thing, even though at great personal costs for which the
people of this world shall forever be indebted. The world would be a much a
better place if there were more like you. You are definitely a “Trimtab”.
The
Rationale for Global Spying
The US government has provided as justification for
its global spying operations the need to protect itself from “terrorists”. The
fact of the matter is that if you do some digging, you’ll find that most of the
so-called “terrorist organizations” in the world today were either created or supported
militarily/financially at some point by the US government itself. Case in point
is the current dictatorship in Egypt headed by an American puppet:
Saddam was a US Government puppet before he went
rogue, the Taliban was also created
by the CIA, among many others. Currently the US is busy arming
terrorists in Syria. In fact, while it pretends to be running scared of
“terrorists” all around the world – the US Government is itself the biggest
terrorist on Earth. The people of Egypt have realized the truth, so must the
rest of the world. The truth of the matter is that the people controlling the
US government need these spying operations in order to have information on and
thus control over the global slave population which are needed to run their empire.
A
Corrupt and Bankrupt Global Bully
The US Government is a morally and financially
bankrupt entity that in its megalomaniac delusion expects the world to “obey”
it. It has the GALL to demand the very countries that it’s openly mocking and
decrying to obey its demands. It is threatening them with “consequences”.
"We've got to start dealing with Vladimir
Putin for what he is. [Putin is] an old KGB colonel apparatchik who disdains
democracy [and] continues to stick his thumb in our eye."
--US Senator John
McCain
"Mr. Snowden's claim that he is focused on
supporting transparency, freedom of the press and protection of individual
rights and democracy is belied by the
protectors he has potentially chosen - China, Russia, Ecuador, as we've
seen,"
--White House spokesman Jay Carney
"I wonder if Snowden chose Russia or China
for assistance because they are such
bastions of Internet freedom...[I] would be deeply troubled [if Russia and
China knew of Snowden’s plans] and there would be, without any question, some
effect and impact on the relationship and consequences.”
--John Kerry
(All
emphasis mine)
And instead of making use of the opportunity that
destiny has provided them to call the US government on its bullshit and expose its
hypocrisy; instead of using the opportunity to show some semblance of gratitude
for Mr. Snowden’s efforts to reveal the US Government’s attacks on their
sovereignty and do the right thing; instead of showing the world that US
hegemony will not be tolerated and people who expose tyranny and risk their
lives in service of humanity will be protected; instead of showing the people
of this world that there are truly independent nations unwilling to accede to
the demands of a dictatorial regime, none of the other countries has done
anything. Ecuador and its president Rafael Correa seems to be a petty little
man who’s in it only for the fame. He was happy so long as he was gaining
all the popularity and sympathy from his nation and the world
with the Assange case, seems suddenly to have become goody two-shoes obedient
little boy of the master when Biden came with a beating stick and Assange’s role and media coverage
in the case threatened
to overshadow his:
“The moment that he arrives, if he arrives, the
first thing is we'll ask the opinion of the United States, as we did in the
Assange case with England," Correa said. "But the decision is ours to
make.”
Bullshit. BULLSHIT.
But is this what we
have come to? The world is relying on one small unpredictable nation to do the
work that must be shouldered by all? Why doesn’t a single
nation have the courage to stand up to the Imperial American Government? It
can’t be military power, for it is unlikely the US is going to launch a
military strike, especially against countries like China or Russia just to get
Snowden back. What then, the United States
won’t “buy” any more of your stuff with borrowed and/or freshly printed paper
money? Great. Who the hell wants a deadbeat customer offering nothing in
exchange but worthless paper money? The world must realize that the US
Government is a paper tiger simply surviving on the basis of running a global
financial scam. All its power is based on lies and deception which is EXACTLY
why disclosures, such as by Snowden, threaten it to the degree they do and why
the US Government is hell bent on prosecuting the leakers. The US government is
a bankrupt entity pretending to be a superpower expecting the world to obey its
dictats. It’s time the world showed the US a mirror and told the emperor he’s
naked.
Feckless
Countries and Politicians
Sadly, the countries which denigrate the US have
themselves shown to be no better. They claim to be “independent” nations yet
are afraid of offending the United States. None of them seem to
be able to stand up for themselves or for the greater good. The feckless
politicians ruling them are hiding behind “laws” and technicalities but who otherwise
have no hesitation in looting the public treasury or starting wars or killing
their own citizens when their personal agendas or profit motives are involved. Apparently
Mr. Snowden cannot travel because his passport has been
(unlawfully, mind you) revoked. So what? Are we supposed to believe it is so
difficult to issue him one by one of the other nations? Let me tell you, if
he were a spy for some nation or even a low level operative helping the
banksters in one of their looting schemes, TEN passports would have been issued
to him instantly. This only goes to show that most governments today, “democratic”
or otherwise either belong to or are subservient to the same criminal mafia. They
have demonstrated that they aren’t independent nations but mere colonies/puppet
states of the US Empire. In fact, most of the political leadership of the world
seems to be in cahoots with each other sharing the same bed. These so-called
countries are mere prisons with their political “leaders” prison wardens
appointed by and/or serving at the pleasure of the US government. They are
happy to exploit their prison populations for personal enrichment but with the permission
of and in collaboration with the US and the cartel controlling it. This is the
only explanation for the deafening global silence and inaction in the Snowden
case.
Mr.
Snowden’s Shameful Treatment
Letting Mr. Snowden
loiter indefinitely in a transit area, is this how the world, especially
Russia, want to be seen and recorded by history as having treated those have
made the ultimate sacrifice for the greater good? Whatever treatment the US
government has in store for Mr. Snowden, he is already being punished by being
forced to sit inside an airport terminal in God knows what conditions. Is this how the world intends to thank Mr. Snowden
for his services? To the leaders of Russia and China: It’s not some spy we are
dealing with here – here is a person who has taken a stand to protect the
greater good – and
unless, like Europe, you were a subscriber of the NSA “data sharing plan” –
exposed massive US spying on your government and citizens. Instead of
celebrating and taking the opportunity to reveal the hypocrite bully that is
the US Government, you are debating and hiding behind technicalities? It’s your
chance. If you fail now, you lose your face in the world and your standing to
criticize the US on ANY issue EVER. Moreover, it gives us reason to believe YOU
WERE IN ON IT.
The world needs to come together if this banking cartel’s
US Government’s tyranny has to end. If the rest of the world can’t protect
somebody like Snowden then they have no right to complain against whatever
atrocities the US Government commits. They have NO right to complain against NSA
surveillance.
Today I am – as we all must be - ashamed to be a part of this
world, this race and the current feckless iteration of the human civilization. We
have shown ourselves not worthy of the courage and sacrifices of people like
Mr. Snowden. Shame on us. The way Mr. Snowden is being treated, it almost seems
better not to do anything and leave this world to the fate it deserves. If
there is not even one person or one country able to stand up to this tyranny,
we are all doomed to exploitation and extinction and rightly so. If we don’t do something NOW, then the day is not far
when there will be a Nazi concentration camp in each and every country on
earth. No more Snowden’s will sacrifice themselves for us.
A Warning to Global Politicians
Let’s be very careful about who we call
"traitor". Edward Snowden is
one of us. Bradley Manning is one of us. They are young, technically minded
people from the generation that Barack
Obama betrayed. They are the generation that grew up on the internet, and
were shaped by it. The US government is always going to need intelligence
analysts and systems administrators, and
they are going to have to hire them from this generation and the ones that
follow it. One day, their generation will run the NSA, the CIA and the FBI.
This isn’t a phenomenon that is going away. This is inevitable.
And by trying to crush these young whistleblowers with
espionage charges, the US government is taking on a generation, and that is a
battle it is going to lose.
--Julian
Assange
(All emphasis mine)
Rest assured, people around the world are watching the Snowden
case VERY carefully. The means adopted were peaceful and motives genuine. If
they determine that the world politicians will not support honest conscientious
people and their actions; if it comes to light that the world governments were pretending
to be surprised while being neck
deep with the NSA and US government in this quagmire, no one else will
offer themselves at the altar – not so easily. If the US Empire and its minions
think they can control the population by gathering information and spying on
them, they are sadly mistaken. Truth is like a virus without symptoms and no
cure – you will never know who has been infected and they WILL destroy your
empire from the inside much like a termite slowly destroys grand structures.
Snowden and Assange have only fired the first warning shots. The war has not
even started yet.
The slaves – once aware – will conclude that the current
global leadership must be dealt away with and their regimes will be overthrown
and new governance installed. The clock is ticking on the current world order
of FAKE puppet fascist “democracies”.
In the end the Obama administration is not
afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are
stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of
you. It is afraid of an informed, angry
public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should
be.
--Edward
Snowden
(All emphasis mine)
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
