EDWARD SNOWDEN QUOTES OF THE CENTURY

ORIGINALLY POSTED FIVE YEARS AGO

“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American.”

“What is right is not always the same as what is legal.”

“I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.” 

“Further, it’s important to bear in mind I’m being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.”

“…I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.”

“Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.”

“If we can’t understand the policies and the programs of our government, we cannot grant our consent.”

“I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.”

“I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.”

“I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.”

“We have an executive […] who will stop at nothing to persecute someone who told them the truth.”

“With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your e-mails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your e-mails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.”

“Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re being watched and recorded. …it’s getting to the point where you don’t have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis, to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life.”

“The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won’t be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things… And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it’s only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that… because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.”

“These programs don’t make us more safe. They hurt our economy. They hurt our country. They limit our ability to speak, think, live, and be creative.”

“So many of the things we’re told by the government simply aren’t true.”

“The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.”

“The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.”

“To do that, the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that’s the easiest, most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government, or someone that they suspect of terrorism, they are collecting YOUR communications to do so.”

“…I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.”

“The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.”

“The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.”

“Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere… I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President…”

“I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinized most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.”

“Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.”

“Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.”

“I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.”

“I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.”

“You can’t come up against the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.”

“I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.”

“I do not expect to see home again.”

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flash
flash

If this ex-mil officer is correct, it may be too late to save this Republic?

“Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.”
– General Douglas Macarthur

“The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
* Too late in comprehending the deadly purpose of a potential enemy.
* Too late in realizing the mortal danger.
* Too late in preparedness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov92Fi9NHT4
* Too late in uniting all possible forces for resistance.
* Too late in standing with one’s friends.”
– General Douglas Macarthur

CCRider
CCRider

That was phenomenal! Thanks so much for posting. I will keep an eye on Col. Mc Connell. If he has an ‘accident’ we all need to find some way to respond. This level of heroism demands our support.

flash
flash

I don’t see how anyone could lack faith in the credibility and judgement of those servants of the greater good at the Pentagram in all things concerning national security..

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/26/sponsors-of-pentagons-alarm-raising-climate-study-/?page=all

Retired officers poised to profit after Pentagon’s alarmist climate change report
Urgent Obama call can funnel funds to projects

Retired military officers deeply involved in the climate change movement — and some in companies positioned to profit from it — spearheaded an alarmist global warming report this month that calls on the Defense Department to ramp up spending on what it calls a man-made problem.

http://launch.newsinc.com/embed.html?type=VideoPlayer/Single&widgetId=1&trackingGroup=69016&siteSection=washingtontimes_pp_nws_non_sty_pp&videoId=25952256#ndn-widget-embed-1-player

The report, which the Obama administration immediately hailed as a call to action, was issued not by a private advocacy group but by a Pentagon-financed think tank that trumpets “absolute objectivity.” The research was funded by a climate change group that is also one of the think tank’s main customers.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/26/sponsors-of-pentagons-alarm-raising-climate-study-/

flash
flash

If not murdered, I wonder what the crazy radical JFK’s thoughts on Snowden would have been…but it’s highly likey that if JFK had lived, the demon directed police state apparatus that Snowden exposed would not exist today. comment image

overthecliff

Many times a man is known by his enemies. I think the list of enemies by Admin is a testament to Snowdens character

overthecliff

Flash I think you are deluding yourself when you make a hero of Kennedy. He was the tool of the oligarchs at the time. That was a time when Democrat politicians pretended to be Americans and said the right things.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

While I can’t say for certain, 3 years is hardly enough to judge someone by. Words from politicians are just so much bullshit, as they are generally NEVER followup up with supportive or consistent action. The CIA comments are great, but the actions in Vietnam were not. The Silver Certificates were wonderful, but would they have lasted. He was an adulterous member of a well-established crime family, who made their money off laws that violated the rights of all Americans. What principles might have been sacrificed to win re-election in 1964, or what might have an emboldened re-elected president have done knowing he didn’t need to worry about another re-election. We will never know. Looking backwards and forwards from his administration, it is hard to fathom that America actually elected anything close to a freedom-lover.

Gayle

Admin

Thanks for compiling all those quotes.

The collections you created got me to thinking on many things, one of which is the upcoming election. We the People have more evidence than we have probably ever had of the corruption and machinations in the elite-controlled government. What will we do with this compelling evidence that we are not being served, we are being exploited?

The November election will provide a clear answer. Either we will clean house or we will consent to more of the same, condemning our kids to a miserable future. I have claimed before on this site that I will never again vote for a Republican or Democrat. I think I am going to have to revise my view. In this election, it will be critical to gain Republican control of Senate and increase its majority in the House. The Tea Party/Libertarian factions can then get to work to hold the more mainline Republicans accountable for their objectives.

This would be only a small start’ of course. I am wondering what percentage of the FSA will actually vote. Any stats or predictions available?

flash
flash

overthecliff, I’m not aiming at fostering idolatry of Kennedy, but once a tool does not mean always one.
After refusing to use US military to aid anti-Castro rebels during the BAY of PIgs fiasco and then subsequently attempting his promise to “splinter ” the CIA into a “thousand pieces” by firing Dulles and inspirational cohorts followed up by his directive to bring troops home form Vietnam,one has to wonder how much of a tool under the control of a globalist oligarchy Kennedy really was.

I truly believe Family of Secrets by Russ Baker which covers the Kennedy years quite sufficiently should be required reading for all high school students.If you haven’t read it and posses the slightest interest of how the global oligarchy really works, you won’t be disappointed.

.http://books.google.com/books?id=vGtWWgLaPTAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

flash
flash

BTW, overcliff, I’m not the source of the thumbs down.I never thumb down an honest opinion…it’s the disingenuous and reckless bullshit, I thumb down.

Montefrio

I was the thumbs-downer and I regret it. Your comment is a wise one. That said, it was done primarily because while JFK was no saint, LBJ made him look if not saintly, at least palatable. What politician is without stain? As for the “violating the rights of all Americans” when we’re discussing a bootlegger, well, that seems a bit of a reach.

Axel
Axel

A 29 year old man without a high school diploma, who is that courageous, thoughtful and erudite– at once gives me hope for the future, that such men exist, and at the same time, shames me, because at that age, the main thing on my mind was my own career and getting laid.

“Where do we get such men?”–Rear Admiral George Tarrant, Bridges at Toko-Ri

AWD

Great stuff, and good job admin with the quotes….

It’s all lip service. Boobus obesus Americanus are piling into the buffets today, absolutely oblivious to what is going on. They’ll take their pills and drugs, eat themselves into a food coma, stare at and finger their phones, feel smart and important on Facebook, too disgusted to look in the mirror, they are forever distracted with narcissism, the new “circuses” of the USSA. There isn’t much hope for this country, As long as the fascists and socialists hand out the free shit and cash, they can do whatever they want.

SSS

Here’s a suggestion for everyone here who encounters the following situation.

Them. “Edward Snowden is a traitor” or a milder “Edward Snowden damaged the national security of the United States.”

You. “Really, then could you please explain why both Republicans and Democrats in Congress are drafting laws to correct the excesses of the intelligence collection activities which Snowden exposed?”

Stick with that point. Don’t waiver. Don’t get sucked into an off-subject debate. Make THEM answer the question. You will win. Every time.

Arizona

OK ,LISTEN UP,the bilderburgers are AS WE SPEAK,drawing straws for who gets what in ISRAEL,they are making their plans to divide JERUSALEM,and THAT will bring total destruction on FOUR COUNTRIES,AMERICA will get it the worst,THAT GIANT ASTEROID,thats orbiting earth ,you know the one thats FIVE MILES ACROSS,will come down,NORTHWEST of puerto rico,THE DEATH TOLL will be in the neighborhood of 40,000,000 million people ,and a mag.12 earthquake on the mississippi river fault,killing millions in the gulf and along the river fault,ANYONE in that area SHOULD LEAVE NOW,BIG tidal wave on the east coast,and the plans are about finished,READ JOEL 3 in your BIBLE,its about to happen,asteroid,pause,WAR,..RED DAWN……get ready………………

SSS

Arizona

Fuck off.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Greenwald works for Pierre, the eBay founder, who has funded the Ukranian resistance,

Az, your a fool, IMO, I suppose some alien put a probe up your bunghole in which your brain calls home.

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Snowden is, and will always be, a spy. He will probably marry Anna Chapman.

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

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Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Arizona, I wish to add insult to your injury. For you forget to mention Og, Gog and Magog.

http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2007/04/gog-and-magog.html

Carry on o trollip of igmoe

Zarathustra

Arizona, I hate to break it to you, but God doesn’t give a flying fuck about Jerusalem.

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Arizona, I hate to break it to you, but God doesn’t give a flying fuck about Jerusalem. -Z

Are you to say that God speaks to you?

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

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Care to elaborate Z?

TE
TE

What wonderful quotes you have shared Admin. Of both a true American and the enemies of America.

This one struck me hard, “I think he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I consider him right now to be a defector.” – Peter King

With sales training, human resource too, I was taught to listen to the ACTUAL words someone uses. To pay particular attention to verbiage, it can reveal the true intent of the speaker, it can reveal where the speaker is from, where he studied, where he has traveled.

My friends, what strikes me about Mr. King’s quotes, is that the sunuvabitch already considers us an occupied country. Defectors? Wtf, Mr. King, just wtf?

So there you have it, the powers that be already believe we are a fascist country, ala’ Cuba, Pre-Clinton China and Pre-wall falling Russia. As those are the countries “defectors” came from.

Homeland Security
NSA’s “Skynet” computer system (I kid you not, that is what they have called it)
Defectors

This shit makes my heart hurt. We truly didn’t value freedom, enlightenment, self-awareness and self-determination. And now it is gone.

Dark days, I no longer see much of the light. We are still near the top of this mountain and our entire way of life is sliding down, and I’m already screaming but see how few of us are. The vast majority, maybe at hundreds of millions of corporate indoctrinated sheeple, are just not going to wake up. If history is to be a guide the vast majority sure as hell won’t wake up even after. They will just scream for a doubling down of safety, food and security at the expense of all self-determination.

Being implanted and tracked no longer seems like a conspiracy theory. It now feels fucking, sadly, inevitable after the next in-county terrorist attack more than likely led by one of the guys traded for Bowe.

I’m beyond cynical and depressed about this shit. My daughter and granddaughter may never, ever, understand the true meaning of beginnings of our country. As flawed as they were, the world has never seen such a thing. And probably will never again.

So it goes…

TE
TE

Why the hell has Jerusalem, God and that clusterf*ck been brought into THIS discussion?

Oh, that’s right, well, nevermind. You guys should know better than to feed the mentally unstable/insane trolls. Setting up and knocking down self-righteous, statist, asshats is entertaining and educational, arguing with someone whom is obviously teetering on the fringes of his own sanity is just mean and cruel. Kinda’ like arguing with a drunk, you just piss him off and he most likely won’t remember/understand the gist of the conversation anyway.

God doesn’t “speak” to me, but I do believe he flows everywhere in my life. He has led me to a recent, further, adult-based, re-education, on his existence and the history of Jesus, the time period, and the Christian (and others) church(es).

Personally, I now believe that Jesus was sent to earth to try and save the Jewish peoples and their religion. Once it became apparent that there was no extracting the belief system from the corruption (as historical documents prove), he sacrificed himself to show us we didn’t need the freaking “religion” and its corrupted leaders to reach the side of God.

So the power center moved from the Jewish temple to the Jesus believing church, while the trade off was allowing the Jewish leaders to continue skimming from the governments and people through banking and tons of trade.

Either way, doesn’t matter. Just my opinion, but God was so disgusted by the Jewish religion and its leaders, he created a son on earth to bring the people to the truth. There is great symbolism in the target of Jesus’ wrath in the temple, with the “moneychangers” – whom were Jewish elders.

Not surprisingly, in exchange for “safety” and commerce, we, the beings created in a God’s image, chose the evil of organizations and leaders over self-determination and the Light.

Jerusalem doesn’t matter, nor more than anywhere else. Dark times are coming whether, or not, it remains in Jewish hands.

To believe anything else is to admit to the continued mind control you allow the elite over yourself. I’m glad I’ve moved beyond it.

And I’m not arguing with you Arizona, I’m just sharing my truth and hoping you can find a way to move beyond the propaganda you have been led to believe is reality.

Peace all.

Bob P
Bob P

Snowden is a national treasure. His courage will be an inspiration to freedom-loving people for centuries to come. Too bad we live in a time where freedom-loving people are so rare–and a time where such an infinitesimal percentage of people who work for the security state will stand up for what’s right.

Steve C
Steve C

Here’s another one from the good doctor,

“…My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy…” — Ron Paul

And surprise, surprise, Steve C. quoting Robert Heinlein,

”…When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives…” — Robert A. Heinlein

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

That’s military intelligence talking.

Whistle blowers don’t become celebrities and hang around unless they still work for THE CORPORATION and are presented as a limited hangout.

Snowden = Limited Hangout

niebo
niebo

“. . .and fuck ever’body but STUCK! STUCK! STUCK! STUCK!”

Snowden . . . just now

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