Twelve years ago today, I sent an email to myself via FutureMe.org
I included a link to a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yw1Tgj9-VU
That was the link to Linkin Park – In The End (Official Music Video) for a really long time. But when I try to visit it now, Google denies it, saying I must log in, first.
What is weird is that I can remain logged out and search for “Linkin Park – In The End (Official Music Video)” and YouTube does show it to me, but at a different URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4
The email I sent was about Edward Snowden and his (then) recent whistleblowing activity.
Edward Snowden was a part of the NSA, but his trust fell apart. He had to blow the whistle, but then flee to Russia, to escape USA persecution.
It should have been the ultimate shame of the USA government that they were not trustworthy enough for their own citizen to face an honest trial in the USA.
me, September 15, 2013
I, too, had seen the YouTube video of the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress that every American wasn’t getting the terrorist treatment. Here’s another copy of the video – the spicy part begins at the six minute mark.
Shortly after, Edward Snowden blew the whistle.
Nothing has really changed, though. The government still surveils everyone without a warrant. They still subvert elections. They still use taxpayer dollars to astroturf Reddit to push narcissism like it is a good thing. C’mon, liberals: band together to fight your imagined (insane) oppression! Only your clicks can save our self-esteem!
Well, that and the occasional premeditated murder. Hooray for those murderers, though! Amiright?
Wikipedia couldn’t get Charlie Kirk’s assassination off their front page fast enough.
Jeffrey Epstein was taken care of, and Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for trafficking hundreds (if not a thousand) children to absolutely no-one. Half of Congress wants to protect the child rapists, and Congressman Vince Fong has still not signed the resolution to expose the child rapists.
If I’d known then what we know now, I’d have started giving away “Make Orwell Fiction Again” hats twelve years ago.
I somewhat would like to send another email to myself via FutureMe.org for another twelve years in the future.
But with the state of the nation today and the direction it is going, I’d have to generate unimaginable horrors to temper what the future could look like.