thanks for the reminder! What I do know is that Reality Winner is a whistleblower, or at least an attempted whistleblower who was outed either deliberately or by incompetence by the folks at The Intercept, after transferring to them an NSA document which contained information about the Russian Military Intelligence branch - GRU hacking into the files of a voting software supplier - VR Systems, and sending spear-phishing emails to over 100 local election officials prior to the Nov. 2016 General Election.
Reality Winner became one of three whistleblowers so far, the blundering Intercept has outed, who are now behind bars in America's prison system. This obviously raises questions about how reliable and beneficial billionaire-backed and funded "alternative" media sites like the Intercept are.
Reality Winner is yet another whistleblower charged under that Espionage Act of 1916 -
https://standwithreality.org/ for revealing government documents she believed the public had a right to know about. If the document, based on an NSA investigation going on during the waning days of the Obama Administration represented a national security threat, why did both outgoing and incoming governments seal it shut from public view and throw the book at a young, idealistic woman who wanted the people to know about this threat or claimed threat to the electoral system?
Back in the days when Julian Assange was becoming a subversive free speech celebrity, he argued that people should be able to protect their personal information from the prying eyes of government authority/while the public should have the right to know what their governments are up to. The end result is that government authorities and their private (for profit) contractors know all of our secrets, while they keep their information hidden from public view, so welcome to the nightmare world of 1984.
*and the song I guess is well intentioned! But for my tastes it reminds me too much of the agenda-driven protest music written during the later stages of the Vietnam War. Great music can be inspired by real life events, but when it's a couple of hippies jamming and trying to think of a song for the cause, it sounds a little forced and uninspired.
