EXCLUSIVE: Edward Snowden Tells Brian Williams: 'I Was Trained as a Spy'

[ozone_man]

69. "Single entity" in this case is the U.S. oligarchy.

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

- Declaration of Independence

"Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. That entity may be an individual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group, as in an oligarchy. The word despotism means to "rule in the fashion of a despot" and does not necessarily require a singular "despot", an individual."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despotism

Rather than get bogged down with definitions, if a government has enough of the attributes of a despotism or oligarchy, e.g., "long train of abuses and usurpations," then for all intents and purposes they are the same. If these "abuses and usurpations" are unconstitutional or don't reflect the will of the people by a large extent, then maybe it is our duty to have regime change as our founders said was a duty, peacefully I hope. Snowden has allowed a dialogue to begin in some of the areas concerning fundamental rights of privacy guaranteed by the constitution.

I only asked about Canada/U.S., since I wanted to make sure we weren't cross talking about the issue.