Ed Snowden
Statement From Moscow
7-1-13
Edward Snowden has issued a statement via WikiLeaks
Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow Monday July 1, 21:40 UTC...
One week ago, I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and
safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has
been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I
have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they
returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful.
On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not
permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" over my case. Yet now it is
being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his
Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have
requested protection to deny my asylum petitions.
This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is
the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political
aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come
after me.
For decades the United States of America has been one of the strongest
defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and
voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The
Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a
weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my
passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the
administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that
belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.
In the end, the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like
me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or
powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an
informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was
promised and it should be.
I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so
many.
Edward Joseph Snowden
Monday 1st July 2013
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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