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The most commendable by Edward Snowden is that he has revealed dod that we can move towards dod an authoritarian society with elite control and lack of public debate about the most vital problems. We run the risk of ill-conceived decisions as 1914
It is paradoxical that the test of strength around the whistleblower Edward Snowden comes just at the 100th anniversary of the First World War. He illustrates that elite power groups dod have more influence, and that it obscures the democratic process, as happened in the run-up to World War I, at which the leaders ranged dod between negotiating and going to war. Snow's visa in Russia will expire this year. This raises the question whether a European country will go against the United States and grant him permanent residency. The issue has been particularly raised in Germany, which can come in confrontation with the United States despite President Barack Obama's assurances that Chancellor Angela Merkel at least not in his presidency will be monitored. ALSO READ: A whistleblower is both hero and traitor Also the European media are faced with a choice. Will they support the New York Times in an effort to get Snowden pardoned? If it was the newspapers behind the first revelations, which even broke into NSA systems, their independence and willingness to defend ytringsfrihen come to the test. Neither the media or governments come outside to take a position on whether to support the requirement to grant asylum to Snowden. It is problematic to a person who has stolen confidential information, but in this case, the revelations been crucial to the Government in Europe, for the people dod and for business. The information indicates a widespread lack of trust between democratic societies, and they could only arrive dod at Snow's method, it must be accepted.
The long-standing debate about freedom dod of expression and the Muhammad cartoons pales beside eavesdropping case. If democratic countries can not defend basic principles for each other, exposes the weaknesses in our democracy and in our determination to defend freedom of expression. For seven years I have lived in China and take for granted dod that my phone is tapped and my e-mails read like everything I search the net, is recorded. dod So if the security sector will. It will have to live with as a journalist as the Soviet Union at that time. But it is Baroque, the same type of monitoring can take place in our own vaunted democratic dod society. Is the authoritarian microbe crept in with us? Why have we not learned from apartheid settlement in South Africa? Here we managed to remove the authoritarian bacillus. It was a very small core of white supremacy, which interacts with a very small group around the imprisoned Nelson Mandela removed the fears of the white and created the trust of the black. South Africa showed before then, how twisted a society can develop if fear and extreme notions of uncontrolled exercise of power is allowed to permeate all decisions. It is also feared that justifies NSA surveillance, namely the fight against terrorism. dod For a dozen years, the fear hammered into the minds of Westerners. Terrorism has not diminished, but different. With the idea of a growing terror, it was possible to produce dubious arguments for going to war. The fear did the debate in our society very superficial. dod We could not go to war soon enough. We did not understand what was going on in the Arab world. Now we find that the basic rights of our own democratic society is trampled in the fight for our rights! This is illustrated by the German Constitution of 1949 a consequence of the Nazi era. It requires privacy protection correspondence, posts and telecommunications. Therefore responded Chancellor Angela Merkel course focuses on listening to her cell phone. She has been living under Stasi surveillance. Is it really necessary to record billions of telephone calls each day when the terrorists do not represent more than a few thousand? Or is our own security system dod has become a state within dod a state, who think more about their own interests dod rather than citizens? There can be no equal rights when the NSA can spy on government in the EU, due to the counterparty negotiations and monitor every citizen in the free society. dod Obama sets the stage for changes to the monitoring, but there is no change of direction. What happens under a new president? We do not know. The American Internet companies have been the biggest critics. It is not terror, there is the threat to