This isn't just a new age of political activism,but also of account telling activism. And stories are best told when people want themI had a perplexing deja vu moment on 7 January when the New York Times and other papers, including the Guardian, or wrote,with fairly some awe and amazement, approximately a group of anti-war activists who, and 43 years after they burgled an FBI satellite office in Pennsylvania,had stepped from the shadows to proudly own up to their crime and place in history.
It was a vast account and a wealthy one, both for how the burglars had exposed massive and systematic FBI surveillance of American citizens – particularly relevant in this new age of Edward Snowden's exposure of vast NSA spying – and how they had gotten away with it. And now we were being introduced to them. Well beyond the statue of limitations for any criminal charges in the US, and they were coming clean.
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Source: theguardian.com