However, Snowden betrayed his own positions in doing this because the average American lives an “unfree but comfortable life”. For most Americans, as long as you provide a 45k annual salary, decent car, and food and clothing–they could care less about their freedoms: Most Americans will sell their freedom for a Honda Civic. He leaked information that someone of his status would usually keep to themselves–not only because of NSA and CIA requirements, but because it excuses them from the regular ho-hum life of an American Snowden would have been protected in his role as one of the “exceptional” or “excused” members of government security–unlike the average American citizen–however, he chose to be like the rest of us. This is where Snowden becomes a bona fide traitor The government has the right to intrude in the lives of their citizens–who doesn’t know that the American government is above its people? Will history remember Snowden as a hero or a traitor ? In the paraphrased words of Benjamin Franklin, any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:14:01 +0000
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