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We are all foreigners - it's a term that only has meaning within the context of a given country. In case you hadn't noticed, those of us who do not not hold US
by peterkelly 10y ago
We are all foreigners - it's a term that only has meaning within the context of a given country. In case you hadn't noticed, those of us who do not not hold US citizenship and do not live in the US have the same inherent rights, and deserve the same protections, as those who do. We are not lesser people than you, and to suggest that it's perfectly ok to treat our privacy as less important than your own is simply arrogant.
Regardless of the merits or otherwise of the disclosures to the US itself, his actions benefited humanity globally by exposing the evil and corrupt nature of the US intelligence agencies, along with those of the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and my own country, Australia.
- marcoperaza 10y agoI'm sympathetic to the sentiment, but it's unworkable in our anarchic system of nation-states, where there is no authority binding states to any system of justice. There is no international court to appeal to for surveillance warrants. There is no international police force that will quash bad behavior. As Thucydides observed: "Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." This isn't a statement of how things ought to be, but how they are. Tie your hands at your own peril, for those who gain at your expense might not be so generous.
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