Will we go back to watching our sports teams and our reality TV programming, and forget about the fact that we no longer have any privacy in our lives, that our elected leaders and our judges are operating on the assumption that if they get out of line the fascist machine at the NSA that works in service of the corporate elite will blackmail or destroy them with its access to all their communications. Or will we rise up and demand an end to this high-tech tyranny in the name of a fraudulent "War" on Terror?
Snowden exiled himself and gave up a great job in Hawaii in the hope that we would rise up when we learned that our democracy has been hijacked.
Let's hope he's right.
DAVE LINDORFF is fluent in Chinese, and spent two years living in China and another five in Hong Kong, where he was a correspondent for Business Week magazine. While living in Hong Kong he was an active member of the Hong Kong Journalists Assn.
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