{"id":11907,"date":"2015-09-06T08:28:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T13:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11907"},"modified":"2015-09-06T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T13:28:36","slug":"us-reputation-suffers-when-it-stands-against-human-rights-rule-of-law-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11907","title":{"rendered":"US reputation suffers when it stands against human rights &#038; rule of law \u2013 Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<h3 class=\"article__heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/314541-snowden-freedom-speech-prize-norway\/\" target=\"_blank\">US reputation suffers when it stands against human rights &amp; rule of law \u2013 Snowden<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Accepting Norway\u2019s freedom of speech prize via a video link from Moscow, due to Washington\u2019s pressure for his extradition, whistleblower Edward Snowden noted that the US\u2019 reputation is crumbling every year it stands against human rights, the rule of law and its own values.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<div class=\"article__tags-trends\">\n<div class=\"tags-trends\"><strong class=\"tags-trends__heading\">Trends<\/strong><a class=\"tags-trends__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/trends\/nsa-leaks-snowden-surveillance\/\" rel=\"trend\">NSA leaks<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This year\u2019s Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression Bjornson prize went to Snowden, who in his address to the audience disputed accusations that his whistleblowing was done to damage the US or get back against its intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI love my country. I signed up for the army, the military in my country, before the Iraq War because I believed the statements of my government,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Snowden said.\u00a0<em>\u201cUnfortunately not all of the statements that were made were honest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0Ql0t4YBxY\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Snowden said that as he became increasingly exposed to top secret material, he noted that the statements offered on a number of issues by the US establishment were not\u00a0<em>\u201csimply untrue\u201d<\/em>\u00a0but raised questions as to how the US was\u00a0<em>\u201cinterpreting the law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd this is fundamentally dangerous. It is about more than just surveillance, I think. It is about democracy. It is about the relationship between the governed and the governing,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Snowden said.<\/p>\n<p>While critiquing US mass data collection and spying on\u00a0<em>\u201ceveryone\u201d<\/em>\u00a024\/7, Snowden said that he remains a patriot whose duty is to protect freedom of speech and inform the public. At the same time in the United States, he faces up to 30 years in prison on charges of espionage and theft of government property.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US reputation suffers when it stands against human rights &amp; rule of law \u2013 Snowden Accepting Norway\u2019s freedom of speech prize via a video link from Moscow, due to Washington\u2019s pressure for his extradition, whistleblower Edward Snowden noted that the US\u2019 reputation is crumbling every year it stands against human rights, the rule of law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[249,338,1795,6763,542,577,1291,765,827,834,865],"class_list":["post-11907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-edward-snowden","tag-freedom","tag-human-rights","tag-iraq-war","tag-moscow","tag-nsa","tag-rt","tag-surveillance","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11908,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907\/revisions\/11908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}