“Perhaps the most dismaying aspect of the Snowden story has been the relative silence of other news outlets, in Britain and America, as the national-security state literally comes to the Guardian’s door. Instead, we have Michael Grunwald, a senior correspondent at Time magazine, posting on Twitter (and then deleting): ‘I can’t wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.’ As the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine presciently observed, where they burn books – or smash computer hard drives, one might add – soon they will burn people.  Do other British publishers really believe that silence will protect them from the slippery slope?”

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/britain-s-national-security-state-versus-the-free-press-by-naomi-wolf

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