9/23/2013 Interview with Guardian Editor in Chief Alan Rusbridger on the Inside Story of Snowden Leaks:
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/23/spilling_the_nsas_secrets_guardian_editor?autostart=true&get_clicky_key=suggested_most_popular_story
Hamid Javaherian
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/23/spilling_the_nsas_secrets_guardian_editor?autostart=true&get_clicky_key=suggested_most_popular_story
Hamid Javaherian
(Date Originally Published: 7/29/2013)
We heard in the news yesterday that the US congress has denied us the right to privacy by failing to limit the government’s access to our personal information and the secret data collection by NSA. The congress rejected the petition to prevent the US government from invasive move into our private life by keeping the NSA unleashed to continue spying on the US citizens. . The general public’s view on this issue is that we inherently have an irrevocable right to privacy. Under the guise of ‘national security, we as citizens have lost a great deal of our civil rights in a fictitious war against terrorism, and in pretend of defense to our national security. The erosion of this constitutional right ( the 10th amendment ) began with the presidency of G.W. Bush and became more enhanced after 911. Our Civil Rights are in a grave danger. Infringement on our personal information has been done in violation of the Constitution, and the burden of stopping the government in their illegal practice is now laid upon us the People to enact a law to prevent them from doing so ––a paradoxical chaos! The difference between the United States of America and countries like Iraq or Iran is precisely it’s Constitutions upon which it’s democracy stand. There are numerous argument on this topic. Some say, “ Well! I know the government eavesdropping on people is wrong, but I don’t have anything to hide, so who cares! The counter argument to this naivete is; Yes it does matter and we should care because the right to privacy, as our constitutional rights is all what distinguishes us as a democracy from other totalitarian regimes around the globe. The government isn’t specifically given the power to violate your privacy. The right to privacy needs to be upheld as long as democracy is respected. Allowing the government to bypass us on one of our rights would lead to the eventual erosion of our collective rights as a People?
