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The former NSA contractor, she said on Moyers & Company, is a troublemaker, and a true hero and patriot, arguing that working as he did for a private corporation, handling sensitive information, and being told basically that there was no problem, there was nothing he could do, he then took matters into his own hands, knowing that he would probably face imprisonment for the rest of his life.
Though Snowdens request for clemency from the U.S. has been rejected, Boghosian credited him with waking the American public up to the widespread nature of the NSAs monitoring activities through his series of leaks to the British newspaper The Guardian.
So its not a matter of your saying, as so many people are, What if Im not doing anything wrong, why should I care if anybodys watching? Moyers asked her. Youve heard that, havent you?
I think thats a very simplistic answer, Boghosian replied. Because when one is under constant surveillance, be it from a surveillance camera on the city block and we have so many here in New York, to the possibility that internet communications are being monitored, it necessarily alters how you communicate. It makes us tamp down things that we might say.
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MORE:
http://billmoyers.com/segment/heidi-boghosian-on-spying-on-democracy/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/08/surveillance-expert-tells-bill-moyers-edward-snowden-is-a-true-hero-and-a-patriot/
nenagh
(1,925 posts)As a lawyer she said that in a Court case involving OccupyWallSt, the police referred to certain people as "troublemakers", but the Judge said that Occupy had shone a light on the so called troublemakers that they really provide an invaluable service in terms of reminding us of what's important in our Country. (@ 17 min)
She said that the troublemakers have the courage to get out and demonstrate for what they believed in.
Great video, thanks.