WikiLeaks
published a statement by Edward Snowden in Moscow, where the
whistleblower is in involuntary exile following the revocation of his
passport.
Originally posted by WikiLeaks on Monday, July 1, 21:40 UTC.
One
week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and
safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty
has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others
who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my
life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will
always be thankful.
On Thursday,
President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any
diplomatic “wheeling and dealing” over my case. Yet now it is being
reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his
Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have
requested protection to deny my asylum petitions.
This
kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is
the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of
political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those
who would come after me.
For decades
the United States of America have been one of the strongest defenders of
the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and voted
for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country.
The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using
citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has
unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without
any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a
basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek
asylum.
In the end the Obama
administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning
or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the
Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed,
angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised —
and it should be.
I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so many.
Edward Joseph Snowden
Monday 1st July 2013
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