In situations like this, I like reading the original statement. Available here as a PDF via the European Parliament. (Drop me a line at the email address here if this suffers from link rot. I have made an archive copy.)
A good review (with an appropriate amount of modulated outrage) from Glyn Moody here: Snowden Gives Testimony To European Parliament Inquiry Into Mass Surveillance, Asks For EU Asylum (TechDirt)
Click to read Glyn Moody’s article at TechDirt
This is an issue of our times. Governmental overreach, what Snowden calls ‘suspicionless surveillance’, makes us all ‘targets’. As he says, mass surveillance ‘violates our rights, risks our safety & threatens our way of life.’
– P
Read this: Did the NSA write John Key’s spy bill? — No Right Turn which highlights a wee mention of ‘faraway New Zealand’ in Snowden’s testimony … see page 3. Ooops.
Its all for our own good … the USA are the guardians of democracy … “you cant make an omelette without breaking a few eggs…” (courtesy J Stalin) … i feel so relieved and so much safer knowing the NSA are constantly able to pick up the phone to Key and Joyce …
If cunliffe werent such an idiot … i might even be forced to vote labour …
naah …(but it wont be National (NSA associates) either …) – or maybe Helen Clark did a deal to make sure she got her cushy job in the UN …
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