11-06-2014, 02:24 PM
Technically speaking I suppose what Snowden did was a crime - even though he was making public criminal acts within the security state.
But that simply highlights how the system has used and abused the law to protect itself against citizens - and when that happens it means that the law no longer is fit for purpose.
Besides that, there is the general international view of what justice should be. A great deal of what Hitler's nazis did was within the bounds of the modified laws of Germany at the time. When you hold the keys to the justice system - as Hitler and his goons did, and as the Bush family and others did and do - then the time has arrived to entirely disengage with the whole stinking thing.
But that simply highlights how the system has used and abused the law to protect itself against citizens - and when that happens it means that the law no longer is fit for purpose.
Besides that, there is the general international view of what justice should be. A great deal of what Hitler's nazis did was within the bounds of the modified laws of Germany at the time. When you hold the keys to the justice system - as Hitler and his goons did, and as the Bush family and others did and do - then the time has arrived to entirely disengage with the whole stinking thing.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14