Young, but Learning Fast

'FAST EDDIE' SNOWDEN, the high tech geek who spilled the beans on the NSA and thus proved once and for all to the American people that they live in a police state, has a new job in Russia. Good for him, they deserve each other. Snowden is regarded as a traitor by many Americans, and the rest of the American people want to consider him a hero, but are afraid to, at least openly. When a subject of tyranny exposes tyranny to others who are fellow subjects, the tyrants label the illuminator of the public "traitor", and a surprising number of the newly illuminated do likewise, reflexively. Snowden is the gift that keeps on giving. Not a day goes by in which ever more nefarious espionage activities by the U.S. government are not revealed through Fast Eddie's perfidy. Give credit where credit is due; rarely has anyone gotten out of the country faster than Eddie Snowden, not since the British army at Yorktown, or Poncho Villa fleeing the terrible swift sword of cowboy Teddy Roosevelt. Back home in the United States Snowden is a wanted man, but not wanted in precisely the manner in which he might want to be wanted. Snowden is working on some Russian website; wanna bet that the Russkies are keeping their national secrets, shall we say, close to the vest? How ironic it would be if Snowden reveals hideous governmet abuses in Putin's Dictatorship! Then again, what is there that he could possibly reveal that could possibly surprise us? We Americans may scream and raise a big fuss about tyranny and government surveillance in the U.S.; compared to the Russians, we don't even know what tyranny and oppression really are. Hell, we don't even know what they are compared to the English, or the French...but we seem to be learning, fast. And please remember, we Americans are a young nation.