Snowden Publishes "A Manifesto For the Truth"

wjcofkc writes "In the turbulent wake of the international uproar spurred by his leaked documents, Mr. Snowden published a letter over the weekend in Der Spiegel titled, "A Manifesto for the Truth". In the letter, Mr. Snowden reflects on the consequences of the information released so far, and their effect on exposing the extent and obscenity of international and domestic surveillance, while continuing to call out the NSA and GCHQ as the worst offenders. He further discusses how the debate should move forward, the intimidation of journalists, and the criminalization of the truth saying, 'Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.'"

Comments

Re:Yes it is

[davecb]

Regrettably, ombudmen generally aren't allowed to challenge the board of directors, only report individual managers' or groups' misbehavior to the board, who then decide.

It's a fast path to management, but it only works if the people it goes to are not the ones who've created or signed off on the misbehavior.

Commons committees used to be the better alternative to ombuds in government, as they were lawmakers themselves and could change the law out from under a misbehaving executive. Alas, here in Canada they've been reduced to collections of trained seals, and in the U.S. to deadlocks.

--dave

Re:Capitalism.

[Joining Yet Again]

see the linked textbook definition

You linked to a definition according to a writer for Liberty Fund, Inc., a libertarian propaganda group.

You're welcome to disagree with me, but there's no need to be so intellectually dishonest.