Edward Snowden Is a Hero

The former CIA employee who leaked information about the NSA's snooping of phone records and other data-mining activities, spoke to the South China Morning Post earlier today.

Snowden told the newspaper that he's "neither a traitor nor hero. I'm an American."

Snowden has no immediate plans to leave Hong Kong unless he is asked to leave, but it is his intention to fight the United States government in the courts there because he has faith in Hong Kong's rule of law. As long as Snowden doesn't get in any sort of trouble criminally over there, he should be okay. As of today, Hong Kong has yet to comment on the case.

There are many people that are going to disagree with me on this issue, but I see Edward Snowden as a hero. He did the right thing. What the NSA has done is a blatant violation of the 4th amendment. How many of you seriously believe that this spying program actually prevented a terrorist attack? Keep in mind, this has been going on for a while and the White House has provided no examples of how this program foiled a terrorist attack. I can think of a couple of examples of foiled terrorist, but do we know if it was because of this program? No. However; I do have plenty of examples of how terrorists could have potentially killed hundreds of people here in the United States, but we were lucky to get away unscathed. What would those be? The Boston Marathon, the Underwear Bomber, and the Times Square bomber.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell believes that Snowden should be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." What about James Clapper? He lied under oath. Should we prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law? Eric Holder clearly lied and yet he's still our Attorney General. And yet, we have politicians like McConnell who want to prosecute a man who revealed the truth about what our government has been doing for the past several years.

President Obama was just flat out insulting in his last speech. "Lets have a national debate on this issue." Okay, no. There isn't going to be a "national" debate. I have no intention in taking part in such rubbish. This so-called "national debate" wouldn't have even come to light if someone didn't leak out the information. No one was put in danger from this leak. The United States government put their own people in danger and the politicians currently in office who supported this data mining operation are in "danger" of losing their jobs. That is all they care about.

Isn't this just ironic? Do you remember the Democrats that were just outraged by The Patriot Act? President Obama was one of those Democrats. What does he do? Not only does he extend The Patriot Act, but he adds even more to it. That's not change. That's more of the same with extra cream and sugar. Government programs try to put a happy face on everything, but it's a mirage. In reality
that cream and sugar is not cream and sugar. It's a rotten onion. Remove one stinking layer and there is an even smellier one beneath.