Snowden, Privacy, and Martyrs

hi this is Charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny Colorado always warm Always Sunny sometimes Colorado today is December 6 2022. I have recently returned from NFR had a lovely time in Las Vegas go every year with the family and go to the rodeo and usually stay at The Phoenician sometimes Caesars and I get to see all the sights and sounds and enjoy how bad Vegas has gotten and how expensive Vegas has gotten I ordered some steak empanadas for an appetizer they were this small and 25 for just two of them so I think Vegas has gotten too expensive so anyway I want to make a video before I went to bed because this is a topic that's really important to me and it's one of those topics where at times I take a somewhat contrarian view to what people would expect a Libertarian mindset or they would expect me to believe because I'm in the cryptocurrency space I often get asked because he's now on the conference circuit and occasionally goes to conferences I go to if I telepresence what I think of Edward Snowden and overall what I think of the whole affair for many years I've been a staunch libertarian and preached the virtue of privacy and restricting the ability of the government the U.S government from intruding upon our personal Liberties I firmly believe we have freedom of Association Commerce and expression and I see things the government colluding with social media I see things the hate speech movement and these other things as basically just attempts to gain control over thought and expression and politicize it so that anything that's inconvenient to those who are in power is defined as the enemy and gets the platformed now I'm also surrounded by as a result was hiring lots of veterans and having veterans in the family a lot of people sworn oath to the US Constitution and were entrusted with the secrets of our nation and entrusted with the defense of our nation it's not a light oath millions of Americans have taken it we'll continue to take it and a lot of people have died in the pursuit of it or suffered terribly and in many cases were treated very unfairly now everybody who holds the security clearance will tell you you will see if you get hired off the food chain you spend long enough in many things that make you sick and are profound injustices and yet you're expected to keep them Secret now a student is no different than that he took the oath multiple times one at the CIA one at the NSA and one I believe he was in the army and each time it is mine he had a version of the Constitution that does not fall into the mainstream of the American public why not because the mainstream the American public elected the presidents the Senators the congressmen and these other Representatives they didn't just appear out of The Ether they were elected now his version of it he said well I'm going to make a moral stance and I'm going to tell the world what's really happening with the U.