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RT Times reports that Alexanderplatz square in Berlin has become the stage for a provocative art piece which celebrates whistleblowers and encourages ordinary citizens to speak out. "They have lost their freedom for the truth, so they remind us how important it is to know the truth,” says sculptor Davide Dormino. The life-sized statues of the three whistleblowers stand upon three chairs, as if speaking in an impromptu public meeting. Next to them is a fourth, empty chair. "The fourth chair is open to anyone here in Berlin who wants to get up and say anything they want," says the artist. Dormino, who came up with the idea together with the US journalist Charles Glass, specifically chose a classical bronze statue for his depiction – and not an installation or abstract piece – since statues are usually made of establishment figures. According to Domino while men who order others to their deaths get immortalized, those who resist are often forgotten, so “the statue pays homage to three who said no to war, to the lies that lead to war and to the intrusion into private life that helps to perpetuate war.” Activists and members of Germany’s Green party unveiled the life-size bronze statues on May Day.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 03 2015, @05:46PM
We The People employ the people in government. Snowden worked directly for government, and indirectly for We The People. There was no betrayal on Snowden's part. The man stayed true to his real employers - you and me.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday May 03 2015, @05:55PM
I have never actually seen Snowdens employment papers, but without having ever seen them I'm fairly sure there is something in there that he totally violated by doing what he did even tho he thought he had a good cause.
Not that I think it matters but I'm not included in 'we the people' since I'm not a citizen of the USA. If that should mean I would have more or less to cry about remains uncertain; after all they potentially spied on me to, but then that was their job.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 03 2015, @06:18PM
Yessss . . . and I'm more than certain that government itself is violating the terms of it's own employment. THAT is what Snowden exposed. If you're concerned that people should adhere to their terms of employment, then you should be cheering Snowden.
(Score: 3, Informative) by tathra on Monday May 04 2015, @08:17PM
the oath of office [opm.gov] for all federal emplyees:
I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
every government employee's first duty is to the constitution. snowden did what he could to defend the US constitution from domestic enemies.