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[A good holiday to everyone celebrating Bastille Day. Or the birthday of Woodie Guthrie (1912) for that matter.]

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2013-07-12:

"But Snowden's contribution to the noble cause of restoring the First, Fourth and Fifth amendments to the Constitution is in his documents. It depends in no way on his reputation or estimates of his character or motives - still less, on his presence in a courtroom arguing the current charges, or his living the rest of his life in prison. Nothing worthwhile would be served, in my opinion, by Snowden voluntarily surrendering to U.S. authorities given the current state of the law.

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"What he has given us is our best chance - if we respond to his information and his challenge - to rescue ourselves from out-of-control surveillance that shifts all practical power to the executive branch and its intelligence agencies: a United Stasi of America."

-- Daniel Ellsberg, in the essay "Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.", on whistleblower Edward Snowden.

[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/daniel-ellsberg-nsa-leaker-snowden-made-the-right-call/2013/07/07/0b46d96c-e5b7-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html]

(submitted to the mailing list by Mike Krawchuk)