Edward Snowden on "Turnkey Tyranny"
Edward Snowden: The greatest fear I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.
People will see in the media all of these disclosures—they’ll know the
length that the government is going to grant themselves powers,
unilaterally, to create greater control over American society and global
society. But they won’t be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things
— to force their Representatives to actually take a stand in their
interests. And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it’s only going to
get worse, until eventually, there will be a time where policies will
change because the ONLY thing that restricts the activities of the
surveillance state are policies. Even our agreements with other
sovereign governments, we consider that to be a stipulation of policy,
rather than a stipulation of law. And because of that, a
new leader will be elected, they will flip the switch, say that because
of the crisis, because of the dangers that we face in the world, you
know, 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.
Comments
interesting background on Snowden. makes you reconsider his motives.
i have not gotten over excited about this whole NSA story, mostly because i had just assumed all along that this was happening. frankly, i was surprised at shocked reactions.
Project Echelon goes back decades. This is just the natural growth.