MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Edward Snowden will appear via video link as a featured speaker at a New Hampshire convention of libertarian activists.
The Valley News reports (http://bit.ly/1RUCFLK) that the former National Security Agency contractor will participate in a 30-minute discussion and Q&A at the New Hampshire Free State Project’s convention in Manchester in February.
The Free State Project describes itself as an effort to recruit “liberty-loving people” to move to New Hampshire. The group says it is trying to recruit 20,000 people who agree that a government should act to protect people’s rights.
Snowden leaked millions of documents about government surveillance to a United Kingdom newspaper in 2013. He has been living in Russia under a grant of asylum and faces charges in the U.S. for leaking details of the once-secret program.
Free State Project President Carla Gericke confirmed the speaking engagement at their Liberty Forum, which runs from Feb. 18-21. She said the topic has yet to be decided.
“He’s a really insightful and brilliant man,” she said. “From our perspective, we’re really excited to give him a platform.”
Gericke said Snowden doesn’t deserve to be labeled a “traitor.”
“I think what he did was incredibly courageous and brave,” she said, comparing Snowden’s disclosures with those of Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers.
Snowden was the subject of a 2014 Academy Award-winning documentary called “Citizenfour,” which chronicles his work with Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald and filmmaker Laura Poitras to reveal the secrets.
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Says more about Gericke than it does about Snowden. Libertarians have no loyalty, so they don’t understand betrayal. But hey, let Snowden return to the U.S. and let a jury decide. Until then treat anybody promoting a video feed from Snowden as providing aid and comfort to the enemy.
What enemy? Unless you believe, correctly, that the Federal Government in its actions to further degrade your and mine Fourth Amendment rights have over reached and become an active enemy.
Libertarians, that’s funny, you can just call them non-religious gun fetishists, more truthful and descriptive.
why?!?
I wonder if Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were Tor users, or maybe they used Signal, Snowden is reccomending that. They certainly protected their 4th amendment rights, including hiding or destroying the hard disk on their PC so we may never know how they communicated with Daesh. Thank you “privacy advocates”.