Those Of Us Who Finally Saw Through

For An American To Be Patriotic Is To Be Loyal To The Principles Of Our Constitution, And The First Amendment. The Truth Is That The Policies Of The Government Is Sometimes In Conflict With That. In Our Country, Patriotism Should Not Be Defined As Obedience To An Authority.

I See Edward Snowden As Someone Who Has Chosen, At Best, Exile From The Country He Loves-with A Serious Risk Of His Assassination By Agents Of His Government Or Life In Prison (in Solitary Confinement)-to Awaken Us To The Danger Of Our Loss Of Democracy To A Total-surveilla Nce State

If There's Another 9/11 Or A Major War In The Middle-east Involving A U.s. Attack On Iran, I Have No Doubt That There Will Be, The Day After Or Within Days An Equivalent Of A Reichstag Fire Decree That Will Involve Massive Detentions In This Country.

Every Attack Now Made On Wikileaks And Julian Assange Was Made Against Me And The Release Of The Pentagon Papers At The Time.

My Feelings Of Revulsion And Foreboding About Nuclear Weapons Had Not Changed An Iota Since 1945, And They Have Never Left Me. Since I Was 14, The Overriding Objective Of My Life Has Been To Prevent The Occurrence Of Nuclear War.