Snowden

So for the purpose of this blog, I am going to assume that you have never heard of Edward Snowden. Snowden is a 30 year old man who worked at the NSA data center. The NSA data center is located in Bluffdale, Utah. At the data center, the NSA collects mass amounts of data on United States citizens. The NSA has been spying on U.S. citizens through means such as phones and computers. Edward Snowden exposed the NSA for their unconstitutional ways of "protecting the country." It is crazy to me to think that the NSA thinks that they have the right to spy on the average citizen. Snowden admitted to having the right to tap anyone’s phone or computer­, including the President’s or other high-ranking officials. In an interview, Snowden expressed how he knew blowing the whistle would endanger his life forever.

 “In a world where I would not be restricted from killing an American, I personally would go and kill him myself,” a current NSA analyst told BuzzFeed. “A lot of people share this sentiment.”

One Pentagon official said, “I would love to put a bullet in his head. I do not take pleasure in taking another human beings life, having to do it in uniform, but he is single-handedly the greatest traitor in American history.”

The fact that such high-ranking officials in our government want Snowden dead because he opened his mouth about an unconstitutional issue is totally absurd and very disturbing. A defense contractor in our government told BuzzFeed, “Most everyone I talk to says he needs to be tried and hung, forget the trial and just hang him.” So not only do government officials want to kill Snowden for doing the right thing, they want to do so without a trial. Snowden has been hopping around the world, living in any country that will grant him asylum so he can be protected from the government. Edward Snowden is truly an American hero.

Here is an interview with Edward Snowden:

Source

Johnson, Benny. "America’s Spies Want Edward Snowden Dead." BuzzFeed. N.p., 16 Jan. 2014. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. <http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/americas-spies-want-edward-snowden-dead>.