Labelled evil - whistleblower

Commentary from afar darlings. Commentary from we down under people, about how the fuck did patriots in the US become evil people, apparently trying to bring down The Empire? 

"You can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience," Obama told a Californian crowd last month. 

The growing ease of whistleblowing, in part, has prompted this punitive response from authorities, desperate to stay in control. Within the whistleblowing community such crackdowns are called ''mobbings'': the whistleblower is surrounded like a foreign virus in the body and attacked and isolated until expelled. 

The "intensity and extremity" of this punitive pursuit reflects the times we live in, says Griffiths University's Professor A.J. Brown, an expert on whistleblowers. "It's almost as if it reveals the desperation of institutionalised national security interests to try to keep control over information in an era where that is inherently becoming more and more difficult.''

Drake has described the attacks on Snowden as a distraction from a greater concern. "The government is desperate to not deal with the actual exposures, the content of the disclosures. Because they do reveal a vast, systemic, institutionalised, industrial-scale Leviathan surveillance that has clearly gone far beyond the original mandate to deal with terrorism - far beyond." Read more

Yep, I'm scratching my head over this one. And so are people publishing in the Sydney Morning Herald; BTW a spectacularly well read Sydney paper over many many years.

I never thought I would ever see the day where a US citizen would seek asylum in another country. Because they feared they'd not be treated fairly as in other countries where they would be. By an out of control state. Yet I do. ..............

Read the whole article if you have time, there's much more.