Ilana Mercer opined in pertinent part anent Edward Snowden: Snowden forsook creature comforts and worldly possessions to speak truth to power – and not to any power. The 29-year-old NSA contractor has gone up “against the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies,” as he stated soberly. Snowden understands his chances of prevailing are not good. “[T]hey’re such powerful adversaries that no one can meaningfully oppose them. If they want to get you, they will get you in time.” In Snowden’s poignant words, “You can’t wait around for someone else to act. I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act. . . . I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American,” he summed-up so simply. Yes, we need . . . more men of character like Snowden. Those who’re not suspended in the moral abyss with mainstream media already know that Edward Snowden is the best of America. Let us prove ourselves worthy of his sacrifice. Come every Memorial Day – more aptly called “Dying For Nothing Day” – we direct a commonplace saying at members of a military that has not defended authentic American liberties for decades. It is, however, to a young man such as this that we should say: “Thank you for your service, Mr. Snowden.”
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:44:46 +0000
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