Run, Ed, Run

God speed to NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden in his odyssey to escape the clutches of Uncle Sam for revealing the massive surveillance program that has obliterated our 4th Amendment right to privacy. Everyone of us patriotic, loyal Americans owes him a debt of gratitude, not a ten by ten prison cell for the next ten years. Hong Kong said no dice, Uncle, and allowed Snowden to flee Hong Kong for safer climes.

I can still remember cheering on Daniel Ellsberg forty-two years ago when he leaked the Pentagon Papers which exposed the vicious lies which doomed thousands of human canon fodder, US and Vietnamese, to needless death in the Vietnam War. If we'd had a whistleblower like Snowden in the George W. Bush administration back in 2002, exposing the lies Bush and his criminal war cabinet concocted to launch their senseless and failed war, 4,422 GI's would be alive and hundreds of thousands of others wouldn't have been wounded, injured or broken in mind and spirit. Iraqi casualties? Millions have been killed, wounded or forced to flee for their lives from the carnage Bush visited upon them.

 

The murderous criminality of Bush gets a pass, but Heaven forbid if a decent human being tries to expose wrongdoing. Then the full weight of the war party is brought to bear for daring to take on the Goliath of senseless war and senseless surveillance. Read and listen to the mainstream pundits and they're all of one mind to discredit and demean Snowden so they can retain their credibility and standing with the government who really controls their careers.

 

Uncle Sam may eventually get his mitts on Snowden and imprison him. But thankfully, there will always be others who will risk all to pull the veil off governmental wrongdoing.

 

Thank you, Ed Snowden.