Edward Snowden is a hero: There was a dream that was America....

In the few hours that have come and gone since we heard this story break , over the weekend, (worst time to break a story for traction in the media), i've gotten into a bunch of online debates over my view that this man is indeed a hero.  I believe that he has sacrificed his life to show us the truth about what our government does to us, how they do it, why, and what we don't know they use this information for.

Now firstly, understand, there is no free media.  In the few hours that have gone by since a watched Mr Snowden tell us what he did, and why he did it, he has become a number of things.  We will never know if any of them are true.  You have to understand, he is butting heads with the guys who made a six million dollar man, the NSA.  They have stuff you can't even dream of.  This guy last night went to Hong Kong because he is not stupid, and he wants to try and be safe from our government.  This morning, even though he worked for the NSA, this morning he is a high school drop out who didn't finish community college, and some how got a job at the NSA......?  By the end of the day he will have been in the middle east or seen building car bombs.  They are gonna re paint this guy to be the thing you fear.

The patriot act passed in the middle of the night after 911 gave the government the right , without a warrant, to get up close and personable with you if they so much as have any reason they can think of to do so.  Software was put into place that can read the lips of 40,000 people at once at a sporting event, just to see if anyone says a word that could be a bad word....one that might mean something bad is going to happen.  This is not fiction, this is real.  What we have now been told is that  it's worse than that.  We are no being told that every single thing you say and or do is being recorded.  everything.

Forget your Gun rights.  The very thing that makes you hold up your hands and say, "They will have to pry it form my cold dead hands", is gone.  They don't need your guns, they have your ass.

9pm EST:  ABC evening News.  "Is Edward Snowden giving our secrets to terrorist? " 

Just like I predicted when I started writing this in the morning, but evening they would have you believe this man is an active terrorist.....yes, who somehow tricked the NSA into giving him three jobs.  They would paint the picture that his man is walking around Asia with a briefcase of papers!!!!  ridiculous!!!  He simple told us what our government is doing to us, he didn't steal the information, HE TOLD YOU ABOUT IT BEING COLLECTED.

It is so frustrating to watch this unfold, time after time, the truth, and the real news....twisted and spun.

There was a dream that was America....if you reached for it too quickly...it would just slip away in the night. my friends....it slipped away many years ago.