Happy Birthday, Ed! Happy Birthday, America!
(Did they wake up??)
EDWARD SNOWDEN
On this date in 1983, Edward Snowden was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. Snowden is known for leaking highly classified information from the National Security Agency, where he worked, to the press in June 2013. Snowden did not receive a complete formal education. He dropped out of high school and later dropped out of Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland, where he studied computer science. He earned his GED. He taught himself computer science, information technology, politics, and Japanese and Chinese culture and language. He briefly joined the United States Army, where he listed himself as “Buddhist” because “agnostic” was not an option, according to his own web posting.
Beginning in 2006, Snowden started working on-and-off for the Central Intelligence Agency and the NSA, receiving top-security clearance. In May 2013, Snowden left the United States for Hong Kong, and less than a month later he was fired from the NSA for leaking classified information to The Guardian and The Washington Post . Snowden is seeking asylum in Hong Kong, while American officials attempt to extradite him. Some people see Snowden as a whistleblower, exposing many of the post-9/11 laws and the politicians who passed them for compromising Americans’ freedom and privacy. Others view Snowden as a traitor who jeopardized the safety of the United States by revealing confidential information.
“I feel that religion, adopted purely, is ultimately representative of blindly making someone else’s beliefs your own.”
Re-posted from Freedom From Religion Foundation
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