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Four
months ago, the State Department revoked the passport of NSA whistleblower
Edward Snowden.[1]
Snowden’s “crime” was to educate Americans and the
world about the dangerous growth of the U.S. surveillance state.
Tell Secretary of State John Kerry to give Snowden back his
passport.
Freedom to travel requires a passport. It’s a basic
principle.[2]
Government efforts to revoke a U.S. citizen’s passport
have a shameful place in U.S. history. Amid the hysteria of the McCarthy
Era, in 1950 the government revoked the passport of the African American
singer/actor/activist Paul Robeson -- and didn’t reinstate it for eight
years.
Click here to tell Kerry to reinstate Snowden’s passport
now.
Ed Snowden didn’t get the due process he deserves. In
late June -- after he released documents on the NSA’s mass surveillance programs
-- the State Department suddenly revoked Snowden’s passport in an effort to
prevent him from reaching any country willing to grant political
asylum.
The surveillance state that he exposed is spying on leaders in
democratic countries[3] and collects electronic data on millions of U.S.
citizens -- including, we learned this week thanks to Snowden, our e-mail
address books and instant messaging “buddy lists.”[4]
Snowden’s moral,
democratic and heroic action is increasingly honored and
appreciated.[5]
To send an email now to Secretary of State Kerry, click
here.
Please forward this link to like-minded friends: http://SupportEdwardSnowden.org
-- The
RootsAction.org team
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Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S.
Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, and many
others.
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Footnotes:
1. Reuters: U.S. Revokes Snowden's Passport
2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
3. Guardian: Brazilian President: U.S. “Breach of
International Law”
4. Washington Post: NSA Collects Millions of Address
Books
5. Ray McGovern: Snowden Accepts Whistleblower Award
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