{"id":29249,"date":"2015-02-16T14:41:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T19:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/edward-snowden-and-ron-paul-kick-off-libertarian-student.php"},"modified":"2015-02-16T14:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T19:41:47","slug":"edward-snowden-and-ron-paul-kick-off-libertarian-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/edward-snowden\/edward-snowden-and-ron-paul-kick-off-libertarian-student.php","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden and Ron Paul Kick Off Libertarian Student &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    \"You're going to make me blush,\" said Edward Snowden.  <\/p>\n<p>    It was a little after 6 p.m., and the NSA whistleblower's face    and shoulders were gazing out, billboard-sized, at hundreds of cheering young    libertarians. Snowden was beamed in to talk to the    largest-ever International Students for Liberty conference,    newly relocated to Washington's largest    hotel. Snowden, whose highest degree was a GED, was honored    as an honorary alumnus of the eight-year old organization. For    15 minutes he restated a case against the surveillance state    that had no rebuttal in the room.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"As they take the private records of all our lives, and they    aggregate a dossier, how can that be said to be    constitutional?\" asked Snowden. \"Why have we funding and    instituting this system of mass surveillance of people in our    country and people around the world if theres no track record    that shows it works?\"  <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0emilylyly\/status\/566385741350313984\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/0emilylyly\/status\/566385741350313984<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>    As he honed in on his argument, Snowden tailored it to young    libertarians -- most of them college students. \"I think many of    the people in this room take a more pro-liberty pro-rights    perspective than others in the U.S. political agreement,\" said    Snowden. \"Theres an argument to be made that perfect    enforcement of the law is not a good thing. In fact, its a    very serious threat... law is a lot like medicine.When    you have too much it can be fatal.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Alexander McCobin, the president of the Students for Liberty,    posed a few friendly questions. First, did Snowden regret    anything?  <\/p>\n<p>    \"Im concerned that wed be in a better place if Id come    forward sooner,\" said Snowden. He described a conversation he'd    had with Daniel Ellsberg, and how both of them came to regret    how long it took them to produce their leaks. \"He like myself    couldnt get over the psychological burden of fear of    lawbreaking,\" said Snowden.  <\/p>\n<p>    In a small moment of irony, the Moscow-bound Snowden remembered    how he'd talked to colleagues at the NSA, and found them    quietly agreeing with his worries, but unready to expose the    agency.\"We had more on Americans than we had on Russians,    for example,\" he said. \"Should we be focusing on ourselves more    than we focus on our adversaries?\"  <\/p>\n<p>    After Snowden wrapped, a slightly smaller audience remained in    chairs to hear former Texas Congressman Ron Paul chat with Fox    News commentator Andrew Napolitano and Reason.com editor Nick    Gillespie.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2015-02-14\/edward-snowden-and-ron-paul-kick-off-libertarian-student-conference-with-a-little-kerfuffle-about-russia\" title=\"Edward Snowden and Ron Paul Kick Off Libertarian Student ...\">Edward Snowden and Ron Paul Kick Off Libertarian Student ...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \"You're going to make me blush,\" said Edward Snowden. 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Snowden was beamed in to talk to the largest-ever International Students for Liberty conference, newly relocated to Washington's largest hotel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}