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Snowden, Assange, Manning are all heroes. Shining lights bringing out the truth.
The USA, UK, NZ and Australia proudly call themselves democracies with freedoms unmatched in the rest of the world, however the truth is they together run one of the most invasive, controlling and insidious intelligence programs the likes of which the KGB could only have dreamed about.
People are routinely pulled out of their beds in Australia by ASIO and the AFP just for being Muslim, held without the right to speak to lawyers, to tell their families where they are and then when released are not permitted to talk about their experience because that itself is a crime.
As it turned out from the cables releases of Wikileaks, several senior members of the Australian Parliament were/are actually CIA assets. What kind of democracy is it when the foreign power that is the USA has a hand in Australian policy settings beyond the scope of the influence of Australian voters ?
We are well past 1984, however George Orwell was wrong - 1984 wasn't to be the product of a totalitarian regime, it was to be the product of the so called leading democracies of this world.
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