Edward Snowden Says Governments Are Using COVID-19 To “Monitor Us Like Never Before”
By
Arjun Walia
Arjun Walia
In Brief
- The Facts:In the second episode of The Intercept's new weekly show, host Glenn Greenwald explores the under-discussed consequences of the coronavirus pandemic with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and how it's being used to take away more human rights.
- Reflect On:Should the government
use force on their citizenry to comply, or should they simply
recommend safety measures and explain why they do?
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9/11 was a major event in human history,
and although it was very traumatic and devastating, it served the
collective in multiple ways. For example, the event raised questions and
made people distrust their government. It also highlighted the massive
amounts of corruption that exists within governments. Since 9/11, the
masses have become aware of ‘false flag terrorism,’ which refers to the
‘powers that be’ creating, funding and even staging terrorist events in
order to heighten the national security state and justify the invasion
and infiltration of other countries under the guise of good will and
restoring democracy. In reality, this type of infiltration is usually
used for ulterior motives like resource extraction, mass surveillance
and installing a puppet government that is willing to work with
governments and intelligence agencies who have a tremendous amount of
power.
After 9/11 we saw various leaks from
whistleblowers, organizations like Wikileaks, and numerous other proofs
that governments were actually funding Terrorist organizations, and
again, in some cases contributing to the ‘staging’ of terrorist attacks.
The chemical weapons attacks in Syria a few years ago were a great example,
and it eventually got to the point where congresspeople were
introducing bills to stop their own government (The United States) from
funding terrorist organizations like ISIS. Just like Tulsi Gabbard did
with the “Stop Arming Terrorists Act.”
Terrorism is and always has been a
classic case of powerful people creating the problem, so the exact same
people can propose the solution. Are we seeing the same thing with the
coronavirus?
Whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and
William Binney (one of the highest placed intelligence officials to ever
blow the whistle), among others, have been exposing the National
Security Agency (NSA) and the US Government with regards to the extent
of their surveillance programs for quite a while. They’ve both leaked
documents and ‘blown the whistle’ on just how far these agencies go to
monitor not only their own citizens, but the citizes in other countries
as well. They’ve also been quite outspoken that these programs are not
put in place for our own protection, and that the ‘problems’ are simply a
cover that are used to justify the implementation of these programs.
According to Binney, these surveillance measures are not for our
protection, but for “total population control.” (source)
What Snowden Has To Say About The Coronavirus
According to
Edward Snowden, “Governments around the world are are exploiting the
pandemic to monitor us like never before.” He and many others have been
pointing out how society is moving fast towards an authoritarian type of
existence, and how it’s already here. The enforcement or advocacy of
strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom has
been here for quite a while, and it’s done in a very clever way. Many of
us are concerned about having a good job, a house, a family and many of
us believe we have freedom without being aware that in many ways, we
really don’t. And all of the measures that take away our freedom are
done so by manufacturing our consent to these measures, or by
governments simply implementing these measures without the knowledge or
approval of the people. As Snowden mentions in his interview below,
fear, panic and hysteria are usually the tools used to implement and
justify these measures and manufacture our consent.
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As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world. Do you truly believe that when the first wave, this second wave, the 16th wave of the coronavirus is a long forgotten memory, that these capabilities will not be kept? -Edward Snowden (source)
Snowden points out that just like 9/11,
the coronavirus will be used to heighten even more surveillance and
security measures that won’t go away. I am sure many measures that are
being put in place, just as they were put into place after 9/11, will
remain classified and completely hidden from the citizenry. That’s why
people like Edward Snowden are so important.
We are also seeing an authoritarian type
of dictator policing the internet as well. Dr. Ron Paul had a piece
that was recently flagged as ‘false news’ for simply sharing his
opinion. He shares the same thoughts as Snowden to an extent:
Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them. After 9/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act’s hollow promises of security.People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus “pandemic” could be a big hoax, with the actual danger of the disease massively exaggerated by those who seek to profit – financially or politically – from the ensuing panic.That is not to say the disease is harmless. Without question people will die from coronavirus. Those in vulnerable categories should take precautions to limit their risk of exposure. But we have seen this movie before. Government over-hypes a threat as an excuse to grab more of our freedoms. When the “threat” is over, however, they never give us our freedoms back. – Paul (source)
Below is a very interesting interview
that Snowden recently gave with Glenn Greenwald, where they explore the
“under-discussed consequences of the coronavirus pandemic” and “the risk
of acquiescing to more surveillance during times of peril.” In it he
goes into greater detail.
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