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My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.

Edward Snowden

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
Computer Scientist
Dissident
Intelligence Analyst
Intelligence Officer
Security Guard
System Administrator
Whistleblower
Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
Ed Snowden
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I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more airtime. We cannot be effective without a mass movement, and the American people today are too comfortable to adapt to a mass movement.
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The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.
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The question of whether I, as a whistleblower, should be pardoned, is not for me to answer.
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We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.
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These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.
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