Omar Ruiz
Soc Movement
The NSA issue with Snowden has been going for a while now. It makes one wonder how much can America do? And ho good are they at what they say they are good to do. America having access to million things from spying to codes and other things that we might not know of, and yet America has not been able to bring Snowden to justice. We all are aware that he stole a great deal of information and who knows he might have sold them to other spies or countries but why America is not doing more than it seems they are doing to solve the damages Snowden has caused. Wondering what is the justice for Snowden? Not that I want him to be let go free but I wonder why we seem not able to do anything?
Some people call Snowden a patriot, I know that there are many ways to describe patriot but what was so patriotic that he did? Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, called Edward Snowden “a patriot,” noting: “As a whistle-blower of illegal government activity that was sanctioned and kept secret by the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government for years, he undertook great personal risk for the public good. And he has single-handedly reignited a global debate about the extent and nature of government surveillance and our most fundamental rights as individuals.” I do not agree with what the government has done that Snowden revealed but there are many ways to fix the system and doing something then fleeing to another country is not the right way to address situations like that. People might say he is a patriot, I would say he is not if he flees to another country and not wanting to face his own consequences. But again we know that eventually everyone has to face the consequences of his actions and hope that Snowden does what he know is right for this situation other than fleeing.
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/12/19/obama_wrongs_the_bill_of_rights
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/14/debate_was_snowden_justified_former_nsa
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