I've spent the last few days trapped in a hotel room with access to only the corporate media view of the Snowden case. In 4 days there were countless stories of where Snowden was, where he was going, why those places all hated the US, why China was evil, Why Russia was evil, Why Snowden was evil, etc.... but,...
I saw zero stories, not one, about the NSA spying on Americans. Not One. Corporate media is the propaganda arm of the state.
Now for something completely different.... (from people who do seem to care)
Glenn Greenwald:
On the Espionage Act charges against Edward Snowden | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:
.. the same people who are building a ubiquitous surveillance system to spy on everyone in the world, including their own citizens, are now accusing the person who exposed it of "espionage". It seems clear that the people who are actually bringing "injury to the United States" are those who are waging war on basic tenets of transparency and secretly constructing a mass and often illegal and unconstitutional surveillance apparatus aimed at American citizens
the Guardian on history:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/25/editorial-edward-snowden-history?CMP=twt_gu
..America is blessed with a first amendment, which prevents prior restraint and affords a considerable measure of protection to free speech. But the Obama administration has equally shown a dismaying aggression in not only criminalising leaking and whistleblowing, but also recently placing reporters under surveillance – tracking them and pulling their phone and email logs in order to monitor their sources for stories that were patently of public importance.
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