Telling The Truth, From Russia (With Love?)

WE ALL HAVE our fifteen minutes of fame, whether or not we know it or appreciate it. Mr. E Snowden, who may simultaneously be the biggest villain and greatest hero in American history for showing the world the shocking enormity of the American police state, has most likely already had his big fifteen, but you never know. He isn't going away quietly. I heard his voice, on the radio, and I am sure it was neither a dream nor a nightmare. Was National Public Radio playing a sound byte from an Ed Snowden audio transmission direct from Russia? That, I believe, is so. Snowden is still in Russia, but is no longer camping out at the airport in Moscow. He must have his own place to live now, and access to the internet. In the United States, none of that would mena anything. IN America, you can get a place to live, and internet access, and the government doesn't know anything about it. Well, until the NSA catches up with you, at least. But in Russia, if you have a place to live and internet access, you have these things because the central government allows it. Particularly if you're an American on the run, guilty of treason and espionage against your own country, with a head full of knowledge about top secret stuff. The Russians have decided pamper Snowden and let him speak, doubtles in the hope that he will somehow damage the United States,and make America look bad! You Russians need to realize that we Americans already do a perfectly good job of that on our own, and require no further assistance, thank you very much. In the sound byte, Snowden was saying that in America privacy is an issue which is at the very core of who and what we are as individuals, and as a nation, and that the United States has surpassed anything even remotely dreamed of by George Orwell. (Read, or reread, "1984". You'll see. We're way beyond Orwell, and that fact should freak out everyone.) On all these points, Snowden is right as rain, right on the mark. Give the young man credit; he tells the truth. If nothing else, its good to know that an American somewhere is telling the truth, and that somebody in Russia is allowed to tell the truth.