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Edward Snowden Promotes Global Treaty To Curtail Surveillance
An anonymous reader writes: In a video appearance, Edward Snowden said domestic digital spying on ordinary citizens is an international threat that will only be slowed with measures like a proposed international treaty declaring privacy a basic human right. "This is not a problem exclusive to the United States.... This is a global problem that affects all of us. What's happening here happens in France, it happens in the U.K., it happens in every country, every place, to every person," he said.
It's not treason when it is exposing people who defy the constitution instead acting against the nation itself. It looks a lot more like patriotism.
However, if you define treason as beating a Russian at chess and patriotism as selling weapons to a terrorist group that had killed over one hundred US Marines less than one year earlier (the "patriot" North selling to Hezbolla), then all bets are and treason means defying "The Party" instead of the nation. That line leads to the direct opposite of what George Washington and others had in mind IMHO. I'm pretty sure Franklin and Jefferson would be cheering for Snowden if not the entire lot of them.