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Cameron Joins American Leaders In Threatening The Media Over Release Of Snowden Documents

245px-Official-photo-cameronvogtle_redactionThis week we saw how NSA Director General Keith Alexander called on the government to find a way to stop the free press from being . . . well . . . a free press and publish Snowden documents. This follows statements from Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other denouncing both Snowden and the media despite admissions (as a result of those disclosures) that the government has made a variety of violations of U.S. and international laws. Now, even as his country decries the disclosure of over monitoring of foreign leaders and citizens, British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that he intends to stop English papers like the Guardian of informing of the public of the content of these Snowden documents.

Cameron announced that “If they (newspapers) don’t demonstrate some social responsibility it will be very difficult for government to stand back and not to act.”

The “social responsibility” referenced by Cameron does not appear to include informing the public of the attack on privacy or even the exercise of the rights of a free press. Indeed, informing the public on the effort to make their lives transparent to the government — even foreign governments — is viewed by Cameron as an abuse. It is a fascinating disconnect. Leaders are scrambling to public condemn U.S. programs and demand answers in the wake of the Snowden disclosures while trying to shutdown further disclosures. However, the problem now is not some whistleblower but the free press that is endangering society by informing it of the truth.

42 thoughts on “Cameron Joins American Leaders In Threatening The Media Over Release Of Snowden Documents”

  2. There’s a horrible doubling down of anger by extremists politicians and the military and the intelligence communities whenever there is a very thoughtful expose , e.g. Church Commission of the mid 1970’s and the Lord Levin invertigation . The 1960’s phrase “don’t get mad, get even ” is an unfortunate remnant of that adolescent philosophy that we are seeing here in all its sulky glory. Politicians in the UK and the US can do better than to quibble us out of a free press .

  4. It’s suppression of information…
    … Because we all know that an well informed populace makes actual choices about their future and a populace that is left “in the dark” can just rely on Big Bro.

    In closer circles it’s referred to as a Global rise of Fascist Nations, lead by the USA and England.

  6. I think if was John Maynard Keynes who coined the phrase “convergence” and stated that the communist countries would become more capitalist over time and the so called Free World like Britain and the U.S. would become more fascist or Stasi. I think that Cameron cannot stop the media or even the Guardian from moving to the Cameroons and publish this information worldwide on the internet.

    Cameron needs to go. South for the winter.

  7. Cameron and his predecessor was not tapped. It’s that special relationship. Reports are now that the then cardinal, now Pope Francis was tapped by the NSA. WTF???

  8. I humbly recommend that henceforth we citizens refer to the NSA as the Needless Surveillance Agency and the Pentagram as The War Department, as formerly designated in more honest and forthright times.

    As Confucius said: before the legitimate work of government can commence, we must first rectify the names of things so that they refer to reality.

  10. NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html

    “The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.

    By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from among hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot.”

  11. What we see is the overlords real positions/thinking coming out into the open. Their backs are against the wall. They didn’t expect to be exposed like this and this exposure has enraged them. In their rage they do not contain their real agenda from the public. They want the abrogation of all rights. They want absolute power.

    This is a scary group of people. I’m glad they are exposing who they really are. More people will be able to see through them and I hope, will join in struggle against having our rights stripped away. These are individuals who have been given power by the people. We need to stop giving them power. They will destroy everything which makes a good society and good life for people and the earth.

  12. These leaders are just thoroughly pissed off that they can no longer use hypocrisy as a key weapon in their exercise of soft power. (thank you Glenn Greenwald)

  13. I agree 100% with the US Government Military Industrial Complex (“GMIC”). All rights of civilians must be abrogated and any people deemed meddlesome or even potentially irritating by authorities must be jailed or sent to detention camps for reprograming or termination, if conditions of GMIC so require. All patriots feel as I do. GMIC is infallible and its actions are beyond question or reproach. Write your elected officials now and urge them to abrogate all civilian rights immediately. In your heart you know GMIC is right.

  14. Yes, Prime Minister Cameron, the whole world knows you and all your fellow emperors aren’t wearing new clothes.

    Blaming the messenger doesn’t clothe your naked selves. Simply because you fell for the bill of goods doesn’t mean the rest of us are as blind. Of course, on the other hand, we were dumb enough to elect you all.

  16. Cameron is another disciple of the Goebbels method of packaging the message:

    It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion..
    Joseph Goebbels

  17. The Terror State, Inc. seems to have worked spectacularly well on this one. Time to step down, Dave Old Bean…

  18. Cameron is such a US lapdog it’s embarrassing to me, and I’m not even British. The US and Britain just don’t seem to be the bastions of democracy and freedom I was brought up being taught they were.

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