>>1004316 #1251
>Edward Snowden Live @ John Perry Barlow Symposium
Sat., 04.07.18
>>1004245
>You can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.
@3:33 - (Quoting Ed.)
For us, for the United States, and for this world. He was an incredible person, an inspiration to me, and it was an honor to have known him.
There is one last thing that I'd like to say from him...which I will keep with me for the rest of my life,
as I think about what comes NEXT for myself, and hopefully for those of you in the room as well.
I said 'When we are looking all these problems that face the world today, that face our politics today -- the partisanship, the incivility, the inhumanity, the injustice -- that fills every conversation. And we try to make the people in power confront that and fix it and DO THEIR JOBS.
I struggle with the question of How do we correct this? What is it are we supposed to do? And why it is that They feel so comfortable? ...
And it came down to this feeling of IMMUNITY. Of Unaccountability. These powerful Institutions ... it didn't matter if it WAS the Attorney General breaking the Law. It didn't matter if it was the CEO of Citibank breaking the Law. They had a different standard of behavior. And when They saw the world, They saw the System, They saw how much CONTROL They had...and how little we had...well, what are you going to do about it?"
And he sat and he thought, and just a long pause on stage in front of so many people...and he said,
"The United States, as such as It is today, exists to look at precisely that claim.
WHAT ARE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT.
And to answer THAT Question, and answer it RIGHT."