A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy.
-Timothy C. May, The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988
I.In June 2013, headlines flashed across the world: an employee of the National Security Agency had fled the country with a huge cache of top-secret documents and was blowing the whistle on America's global surveillance apparatus. At first the identity of this NSA leaker remained shrouded in mystery. Journalists descended on Hong Kong, scouring hotel lobbies desperately hunting for leads. Finally, a photograph emerged: a thin, pale young man with disheveled hair, wire-rim glasses, and a gray shirt open at the collar sitting on a hotel room sofa-calm but looking like he hadn't slept for days.
His name was Edward Snowden-"Ed," as he wanted people to call him. He was 29 years old. His résumé was a veritable treasure trove of spook world subcontracting: Central Intelligence Agency, US Defense Intelligence Agency, and, most recently, Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense contractor that ran digital surveillance operations for the National Security Agency.
Sitting in his room at the five-star Hotel Mira in Hong Kong, Snowden told journalists from the
Guardian that watching the global surveillance system operated by NSA had forced his hand and compelled him to become a whistleblower. "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything," he said in a calm, measured voice during a videotaped interview that first introduced the leaker and his motives to the world. "I don't want to live in a society that does these sorts of things. . . I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
Comment: Hungary's foreign minister has fired back at the EU parliament decision to trigger Article 7, which ccould lead to sanctions against Budapest over its immigration policies, branding it the "petty revenge" of pro-migrant politicians. Then again, they did the same thing to Poland, and no sanctions resulted. Yet.
The postmodernist cliques in Brussels, Berlin, Paris and London are limply attempting to consolidate their power in Europe. And yet, they have no teeth, no real legitimacy. Even the EU 'parliament' isn't really such. Given its meager powers to draft laws, it's essentially an echo chamber.
This 'shaming' of Hungary of course goes beyond 'mass migration' to encompass the wider cultural war. Hungary last month did something that's arguably far more of a threat to the transhumanists' agenda:
Hungary will no longer certify 'gender studies': Attack on academic freedom or stand against pseudoscience?