Statement of the ILPS Hong Kong & Macau Chapter in solidarity with Edward Snowden and the struggle against US’ incursion on the people’s rights
The International League of People’s Struggle – Hong Kong & Macau chapter joins with freedom-loving groups around the world in supporting whistleblower Edward Snowden who exposed the devious PRISM scheme that is an affront to democracy and violates the privacy of American citizens and the people of the world.
At the risk of his livelihood, liberty and maybe even life, Snowden, exposed to the world PRISM as the latest United States’ electronic surveillance system to monitor communications and movements of targeted people using the leading global technology companies such as Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, AOL, Paltalk, YouTube and Apple.
In its assertion of supremacy in the world, the US plunders national sovereignty, breaks national barriers against foreign intrusion at its own will, and attacks the democratic rights of the people. Even Hong Kong and the people of Hong Kong are not exempt from this imperialist machination.
Appropriating for itself the role of a global police and a ‘big brother’, PRISM has exposed US’ drive to keep people in line with its economic, political, social and military agenda by covert surveillance to pre-empt actions it deems opposite to its imperialist interests.
Edward Snowden is a technology expert who should be emulated for his unwillingness to sacrifice people’s rights for his own advancement.
Now that he is in Hong Kong, the ILPS HK & Macau chapter stands by him as he exposes PRISM and its implications to the security and democratic rights of the people of the US and of the world. We are in solidarity with all human rights advocates and forces fighting against imperialist plunder and covert and overt terrorism in defending Snowden versus any attack to his liberty and life.
Snowden’s exposition of PRISM has triggered people’s opposition to the US’ disregard of people’s rights. We, in the ILPS HK & Macau shall join the people as this opposition snowballs and hit at the heart of imperialist exploitation and oppression. (ilps.hk@gmail.com)
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