Edward Snowden Quotes About Terrorism

Quotes about: Terrorism

• Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Sacrifice, Rights

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

• To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyses them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient, and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting you're communications to do so.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Government, Nsa

  "• Edward Snowden Interview Transcript FULL TEXT: Read the Guardian's Entire Interview With the Man Who Leaked PRISM" by Gabriel Rodriguez, mic.com. June 10, 2013.

• We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.

  Edward Snowden

  Terrorism, Threat

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good.

  Edward Snowden

  Impact, Government, World

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2014.

• In the United States the White House has appointed two different independent panels who had full access to classified information for the last 10 years that master balance has been in place in the United States, and they found that despite intercepting the calls - everybody in the country, - it had never stopped a single terrorist attack. So the question is, why would these officials be pursuing these policies, if we know they don't work, if they don't stop terrorism?

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Independent, Years

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.

  Edward Snowden

  Giving Up, Rights, People

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• Now terrorism is not the greatest threat facing our societies.

  Edward Snowden

  Our Society, Terrorism, Threat

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in order to make those threats go away.

  Edward Snowden

  Order, Car, People

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner when it comes to stewardship of our rights.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Government, Political

• These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Manipulation, Terrorism

• We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Doe, Demand

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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