Snowden Hypocrisy
Mike Walker, Col. USMC (retired)
Whatever moral high ground Edward Snowden might have had has quickly turned into a shameful morass.
The clearest example of this decent into dishonor has to be the offer for asylum by Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega. One of the upsides of getting old is having had the time to gain knowledge and, unfortunately, that includes remembering the rein of Daniel Ortega in the 1980s.
Snowden claims to be a champion of those opposed to governmental oppression and domestic spying, really?
Then why is Ortega welcoming him?
Ortega is the living embodiment of everything Snowden’s supporters allege Snowden is against, except perhaps Snowden’s shared desire to hurt the United States in anyway possible.
Back in the 1980s, Ortega took over Nicaragua, decided to establish a national state police and went looking abroad for advisors. Ortega could have chosen Scotland Yard or Interpol or the RCMP or the Tokyo Metropolitan Police for help. Who did he choose?
The East German Ministry for State Security or Stasi was Ortega’s pick.
That is right, Ortega wanted help from the world’s most abusive domestic police force on the planet at the time; the guys who combined the worst of Hitler’s Gestapo with Stalin’s NKVD when being formed in the late 1940s.
The Stasi created an internal spying network that employed over one hundred thousand informants with the goal of infiltrating every level of society, suppressing free speech and dissent while imprisoning and torturing thousands during its reign of terror.
Here is another factoid from days gone by: Shortly afterwards, Nicaragua started to build the largest phone exchange in Central America. Why? If you thought it was improve telephonic communications for the citizens of Nicaragua you are wrong.
The building was not being constructed by ENITEL, the Nicaraguan National Telephone Company, it was being built by the state police under the direction of the Stasi so that the new Nicaraguan state police could monitor every call in the country 24-7.
The fact that a man like Daniel Ortega who wanted that type of pervasive and repressive police state is now welcoming Edward Snowden with open arms says it all:
This is not about a man who wanted to protect American civil liberties; this is all about a theatre of the absurd being choreographed by the international “Hate America First” crowd.
Mike
