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"IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO By Edward Snowden, Reader Suported News"

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It Was the Right Thing to Do

 
By Edward Snowden, Reader Supported News
13 July 13

NSA Whistleblower asks for support from international community and human rights campaigners.
ello. My name is Ed Snowden. A little over one month ago, I had family, a home in paradise, and I lived in great comfort. I also had the capability without any warrant to search for, seize, and read your communications. Anyone's communications at any time. That is the power to change people's fates.
 
It is also a serious violation of the law. The 4th and 5th Amendments to the Constitution of my country, Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and numerous statutes and treaties forbid such systems of massive, pervasive surveillance. While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice - that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
 
I believe in the principle declared at Nuremberg in 1945: "Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."
 
Accordingly, I did what I believed right and began a campaign to correct this wrongdoing. I did not seek to enrich myself. I did not seek to sell US secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. Instead, I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.
 
That moral decision to tell the public about spying that affects all of us has been costly, but it was the right thing to do and I have no regrets.
 
Since that time, the government and intelligence services of the United States of America have attempted to make an example of me, a warning to all others who might speak out as I have. I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression. The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists. It demanded Hong Kong return me outside of the framework of its laws, in direct violation of the principle of non-refoulement - the Law of Nations. It has threatened with sanctions countries who would stand up for my human rights and the UN asylum system. It has even taken the unprecedented step of ordering military allies to ground a Latin American president's plane in search for a political refugee. These dangerous escalations represent a threat not just to the dignity of Latin America, but to the basic rights shared by every person, every nation, to live free from persecution, and to seek and enjoy asylum.
 
Yet even in the face of this historically disproportionate aggression, countries around the world have offered support and asylum. These nations, including Russia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador have my gratitude and respect for being the first to stand against human rights violations carried out by the powerful rather than the powerless. By refusing to compromise their principles in the face of intimidation, they have earned the respect of the world. It is my intention to travel to each of these countries to extend my personal thanks to their people and leaders.
 
I announce today my formal acceptance of all offers of support or asylum I have been extended and all others that may be offered in the future. With, for example, the grant of asylum provided by Venezuela's President Maduro, my asylee status is now formal, and no state has a basis by which to limit or interfere with my right to enjoy that asylum. As we have seen, however, some governments in Western European and North American states have demonstrated a willingness to act outside the law, and this behavior persists today. This unlawful threat makes it impossible for me to travel to Latin America and enjoy the asylum granted there in accordance with our shared rights.
 
This willingness by powerful states to act extra-legally represents a threat to all of us, and must not be allowed to succeed. Accordingly, I ask for your assistance in requesting guarantees of safe passage from the relevant nations in securing my travel to Latin America, as well as requesting asylum in Russia until such time as these states accede to law and my legal travel is permitted. I will be submitting my request to Russia today, and hope it will be accepted favorably.
If you have any questions, I will answer what I can.
Thank you.

Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News."

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/18387-it-was-the-right-thing-to-do

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"Ya distribuyó miles de documentos, dice Glenn Greenwald
 
 
Si algo le pasa toda la información será revelada, advierte el periodista
 
 
Agencias y Juan Pablo Duch, corresponsal"


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"El caso Snowden: independencia o sumisión
El episodio que protagoniza Edward Snowden, ex consultor de la inteligencia militar estadunidense (Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia, NSA, por sus siglas en inglés), no sólo ha dejado al descubierto el enorme, masivo e ilegal aparato montado por Washington en diversos países para espiar a gobiernos, funcionarios, empresas y ciudadanos particulares, sino que ha revelado también el grado de supeditación de algunos gobiernos a los designios de la Casa Blanca o, por el contrario, los avances logrados por otros en materia de soberanía. Asimismo, el caso ha permitido apreciar claramente hasta qué punto los estados involucrados en esta circunstancia se rigen por principios o por intereses.
Ayer, por ejemplo, tras el anuncio de Snowden de que aceptaría las condiciones que exigió el presidente Vladimir Putin para darle asilo, habida cuenta de que no tiene manera de llegar a las naciones latinoamericanas que se lo han ofrecido, el gobierno ruso reaccionó con perceptible ambigüedad, en buena medida proporcional al pragmatismo del Kremlin en el manejo de sus relaciones con la Casa Blanca.
Un día después de que el gobierno de Barack Obama acusó a Snowden de ser un fugitivo con imputaciones criminales y reprochó al Kremlin haber facilitado un encuentro entre el perseguido y dirigentes de organizaciones humanitarias –el que tuvo lugar el viernes en el aeropuerto de Sheremetyevo, y que fue su primera aparición semipública desde que llegó a Moscú, hace ya semanas– la administración rusa afirmó que esta persona tiene la condición de fugitivo indocumentado e insinuó que no va a apresurarse a conceder el asilo solicitado.
Resulta bastante claro, a estas alturas, que Moscú actúa y actuará para maximizar las ventajas políticas y diplomáticas que pueda extraer del episodio y no para garantizar la integridad del ex analista estadunidense ni para fortalecer el derecho de las sociedades –la rusa y las otras– a la información transparente.
En contraste, los integrantes del Mercosur –Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay y Venezuela– expresaron un firme repudio al acto infundado, discriminatorio y arbitrario cometido por los gobiernos de España, Francia, Italia y Portugal, los cuales impidieron en días pasados el sobrevuelo de sus territorios por el avión del presidente boliviano, Evo Morales, ante la sospecha de que en la nave viajaba Snowden. Asimismo, el Mercosur condenó el espionaje que Estados Unidos ha venido realizando en la porción sur del continente y rechazó las presiones de Washington en contra de los países de la región que han ofrecido asilo al ex analista de la NSA: Bolivia, Venezuela y Nicaragua.
Es ineludible la paradoja: en tanto que España, Francia, Italia y Portugal, naciones que se pregonan democráticas, humanitarias y respetuosas de la legalidad, la pisotean para quedar bien con Washington, y cuando Rusia, una potencia militar que sigue pretendiendo rivalizar con Washington, se atrinchera en cálculos de costo beneficio y regatea el refugio a Snowden para no molestar de más a Estados Unidos, varios gobiernos sudamericanos, entre ellos el de un país tan pobre como Bolivia, no vacilan en enfrentar las presiones y los chantajes de la superpotencia e impulsan resoluciones –como la de la Alternativa Bolivariana de las Américas (Alba), la de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) y la del Mercosur– que constituyen lecciones de independencia y dignidad para los regímenes del viejo continente."
 

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"Se une Alemania a favor de Snowden


Fráncfort. Cientos de activistas participan en una de las protestas convocadas en 30 ciudades de Alemania, como parte de la jornada nacional de manifestaciones en contra del espionaje que realiza la Agencia de Seguridad de Estados Unidos y en apoyo a Edward Snowden. Xinhua" (La Jornada/últimas, Sábado 27 de julio de 2013).

"Fin al espionaje, exigen alemanes a EU
 
"Miles de alemanes marcharon ayer en ciudades como Franckfurt, Munich y Berlín contra el espionaje de Estados Unidos y en favor de quienes denuncian esas acciones. La lucha cotra el terrorismo, excusa para limitar la libertad, aseguran activistas Foto Ap"
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2013/07/28/
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Noam Chomsky: "EE.UU. es el principal Estado terrorista en el mundo" Texto completo en: http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/85161-eeuu-principal-terrorista
 

 

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