Edward Snowden - Internal Whistleblower Behind NSA Leaks

[Hatha Sunahara]

EXCLUSIVE: Father of Edward Snowden urges son not to commit 'treason,' to return home

It appears that Snowden's father is seriously brainwashed. I can understand that, because the issues being raised are, to say the least, mindbending. One of those issues is the definition of what is treason. Someone who commits treason is known as a traitor. Is Edward Snowden a traitor? Has he turned against his country? Or are his accusers traitors because they have turned against their country?

It appears that the whole political establishment in not only the United States, but in virtually all countries are traitors, who want to dissolve their own countries and impose some form of global government on their people. Is it treasonous for one of the people to oppose this?

My take on this is that Snowden is only a traitor if the people who judge him are incapable of critical thinking. Those prosecuting him are counting on this deficiency in the masses to convict him. How can one be a traitor to a country that his prosecutors want to dissolve? Isn't this prosecution the height of hypocrisy? Aren't the people condemning Snowden hypocrites?

It reminds me of the quote by Hannah Arendt about hypocrisy:

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hypocrisy is a vice. One that covers up corruption--which is an agreement not to fix mistakes among people who make self-serving mistakes. Snowden's accusers are corrupt--appealing to the ignorant.



Hatha