Two Norwegian politicians have nominated E Joseph Snowden
for Nobel Peace Prize on 29 Jan, 2014. He was given various awards earlier, in
the stiff face of US opposition! This news demands an in-depth analysis of
whistle blowers and their effect.
Whistle blowers have been in prominence in media in recent
times and has caught imagination of middle class as well as that of
intelligentsia. Reason has been due Arvind Kejriwal’s various expose in India
and the great work of Assange Julian, E Joseph Snowden, Bradley Manning etc.,
internationally, which has shaken the world and of course has put the nature of
democracy in question.
What is the meaning of whistle blower? An informant who
exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it. Also we
must know that this act is not pardonable by any government or law as they take
it as treachery and these informant gets no monetary benefit. US government
trial of Manning is clear indication of it. US and its allies grounded
aeroplane of Bolivian President passing through Europe’s air space in hope of
capturing Snowden!
WikiLeaks created by Snowden was the first International
whistle-blower in recent times, which created massive leakage of US secret ways
of working and it embarrassed not only other countries which were exposed but
US as well in relation to others.
It was a major blow to US democratic face, exposed by
Snowden when he showed the world how US was spying people of its own country in
addition to other countries through their Face Book, Twitter, or any other
social media, e-mails or even their telephones. These data’s were collected in
millions or even in billions.
To give insight on whistle Blowers, I quote, University of
California anthropologist Mark Mason in Russia Today:-
“Bradley Manning is a civil liberties hero. He will go down
in history. People will be reading about him two hundred years from now about
sacrifices of Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and other whistle-blowers of this
period, Daniel Ellsberg and others. He has sacrificed his future for defending
the right of Americans to know about US war crimes, this comes back to the
larger context here, that we have the wrong person in the court. George Bush
should be sitting in a court room facing charges for war crimes. And this is a
story that will be told hundreds of years from now about the courageous acts of
Bradley Manning.”
What followed was mass demonstration by people in EU, South
American countries, UK and even in USA! Many puppet governments, like Germany,
France had to ‘show’ their anger to pacify their revolting citizens. Indian
government, including opposition too maintained low except giving mild
statement against this spying. What was
the outcome? US government and its puppet governments and its aided corporates
of 3rd world on one side and the world citizens on other side which
was evident by the social media which was under criminal surveillance!
Whether whistle blowers will be remembered later in future
or not, there are 2 things to ponder. Firstly these brave men are extremely
motivated to expose crimes of Imperialist USA and allies for democratic cause
and brave enough to put their lives on bet for human kinds.
Secondly, these young ones are not very well read in
philosophy or experienced in politics to lead humans for better society
ideologically like Marx or Gandhi but due the vastness of their act,
encompassing not only US but larger parts of the world, they tend to lead mass
or at least ignite revolution and finally to a real democracy.
Example of above is AAP in India!
The fires in whistle blowers or say journalists, working in
some sleuth organisation where they had availability of massive information,
forced them to alert the world the dangerous situation they were living in. These
information are not to counter terrorism but to locate revolutionary mass and
liquidate them by subversion and other means before they succeeded. This also
helps Imperialists to control 3rd world country’s government and through them
their natural resources, market and weaken competition posed by newly emerging
corporates in these countries.
Outcome of such whistle blowing is open for most of us to
grasp. Some of the outcome includes exposing the nature of Compradors who
openly supported US. In fact some of them sounded apologetic while some others
were relieved to tell the US and allies, look we did not hide anything from
you!! India topped all of them in showing its sycophancy. Only party to oppose Indian Government and support Snowden was AAP!!
The world today sounds Unipolar but many small poles
co-exist like Russia, China and even EU which keep struggling against US or
among themselves for controlling world’s natural wealth. Additionally we can
name few those countries who proudly are for their people and naturally against
US like some Latin Americans and N Korea! Whistle blowers have major
responsibly to expose nexus between the Imperialists and the bourgeois class to
exploit workers, peasants and the natural wealth. Indian mining is good example
to show how our ruling class sells our natural wealth to foreign countries on
huge profit by giving minimum wages to workers, using political parties and
state machineries who by our constitution are supposed to aid the Capital and
its owners and not common man.
Finally while I support Whistle blowers actively, I am for
mass revolution world over to free human kind from economic, political slavery
and end the rule of traitors of our own nations who sell our wealth to MNCs and
keep us divided in name of religion, caste etc. and those of Imperialists who
have made life of 3rd world country’s citizens as well as their own citizens
worse than destitute!
Lastly, AAP, which has shown its courage and resolve to
re-establish Indian Sovereignty, is only party due its vision, policy and
strength to counter imperialist’s hegemony and bring real democracy in India.
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