31-01-2014, 10:57 AM
I'm sorry, I know Sibel Edmonds commands great respect in the DPF community but this article is a shrill and silly rant. It also expounds the currently very annoying meme that we all knew'.
You see it a lot in the comment sections in the Guardian where it really translates as, I had no idea but if I kid myself I knew all along then I can carry on pretending everything is OK and carry on Watching Celebrity Big Brother.'
We all knew?
No we damn well did not. We had no idea of the scale of this. Even the experts in the field have been shocked.
You can question the characters and bona fides of Greenwald. You can even speculate that Snowden is not all that he appears. It matters but not as much as the documents Snowden has leaked.
It seems to me whatever games they may be playing the revelations at the heart of this affair are a total game-changer for the human race. It really is worse than Orwellian. Everyone knew? No way.
We needed to know this, even if it fills our hearts with despair.
Forget Snowden and Greenwald and ask yourself:
Are the documents true?
Did we know about this?
Do we need to know it?
And the picture of the toilet really does nothing for her credibility.
You see it a lot in the comment sections in the Guardian where it really translates as, I had no idea but if I kid myself I knew all along then I can carry on pretending everything is OK and carry on Watching Celebrity Big Brother.'
We all knew?
No we damn well did not. We had no idea of the scale of this. Even the experts in the field have been shocked.
You can question the characters and bona fides of Greenwald. You can even speculate that Snowden is not all that he appears. It matters but not as much as the documents Snowden has leaked.
It seems to me whatever games they may be playing the revelations at the heart of this affair are a total game-changer for the human race. It really is worse than Orwellian. Everyone knew? No way.
We needed to know this, even if it fills our hearts with despair.
Forget Snowden and Greenwald and ask yourself:
Are the documents true?
Did we know about this?
Do we need to know it?
And the picture of the toilet really does nothing for her credibility.