RE: NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden In His Own Words
Architekt said:
Conspiracy theory time:
The guy is too perfect.
Never met a conspiracy theory I didn't like. I am coining a term for why you have an intuitive mistrust of the surface facts: Impedance Mismatch Indicator (IMI).
All politicians set up oversimplified, appeal-to-lower-emotions, straw man/scapegoat story lines/narratives to distract from the most important battle: the powerful ( who are trying to stay in place and control most media) and the powerless ( the suckers who do the shit work.) Currently the phony dichotomy is Left-Right; Librul/Conservative. In the past, say, in Stalinist Russia, it was counter-revolutionary vs good party member.
The labels are meaningless. The underlying variable is always power. By definition, power is why you hear the messages you do, power controls what gets said and most importantly what does NOT get said.
What makes Snowden case very interesting is there appear to be some impedance mismatches, if you will, between the surface story and the real story.
For instance the very, very high salary despite the lack of superficial elite background. Something about the story simply seems odd.
Also, the Verizon revelelations and the Snowden defection/whistleblowing were timed and orchestrated perfectly so that as soon as the Verizon fluff started to die out, Snowden was put front and center. With the ADD culture, it's necessary to have a trope in full view for an extended amount of time for it to take hold ( here the trope is dem administration as totalitarian.) Similarly, the prolonged carping about the poor murdered diplomats in Benghazi has gone on far longer than it merited.
My speculation is IMIs may show turbulence in the power balance, perhaps a strong move by one faction against another that involves taking risks-- because inaction would be even riskier.
My guess right now is this is a repub move to recast dems as the totalitarian party because increasing Hispanic and young (HY) bias against repubs (see below) necessitates strong action to smear the dems. Hispanics making under 50k voted 80%+ for Obama over Romney. (cited below) Obviously, the HY population is going to get more powerful-- hispanics have more kids and young people will move to higher positions, because even Dick Cheney has to die eventually. hopefully without drunkenly shooting any other of his friends, or getting any more than the two DUIs he already had when taking office as VP. ( To be fair, if you think Teddy Kennedy was sober at Chappaquidick I have a fund-rasing number I can give you.)
Cheney is/was a major drunk:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_doug_tho_060222_secret_service_agent.htm
The Republicans HY Problem:
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/all-in-/52089142#52089142
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57582373/do-the-democrats-have-a-lock-on-the-hispanic-vote/
All their kids, dems and repubs, go to the same elite private schools from which future top leaders are chosen-- the schools are the ones to which you and your kids don't go. (Unless you are Athlone the Outlier or some other shadow elite dude here)
However, right now Repubs are suffering from clear identification as the rich, white people's party. That actually is natural base ( and, coincidentally, their source of funding), as well as the strivers who imagine they will join that demographic, so they can't effectively change that. They can move left on immigration which is one reason BHO killed Romney in 2012, but their overall tone and the tense white guys who seem to control the party make it really hard to change their image. So what can they do? Smear the other guys.
But there has to be some serious smear work on the current administration in order for repubs to win in 2016.
This could be part of that. If I was a repub strategist, I woudl try to "flip the script" and ID the dems as the totilitarian party, recording your every phone call etc.
All of this has only tangential relationship to the truth, all these guys are digging like crazy to monitor us more and more, it's a turf issue.
Which bureaucrats are going to have the most power? The ones with the most info on the population. It's their jobs and status they care about, not the people.
Read "Rise of the Vulcans" about the rush to war in the Bush admin, and "Inside the Third Reich" by Albert Speer, about the top Nazi brass.
All those motherfuckers at the top talk about is their careers and positioning, they are in another world of total power and vanity is the driving force. I'm not saying it's all repubs, I'm sure there's a similar book about such machinations about the dems too.
All power seeks to maintain itself above all. the ideological labels on it are absolutely meaningless compared to the deep, inexorable pull of human vanity.
EDIT: They say he was making 122K. It's still more fun to look for conspiracy theories!
