Privacy. A word whose physical significance has become almost non-existent in today's world. Yet we crave for it. You might excuse yourself from company to attend a private call on your phone but without your knowledge all those calls and messages are being recorded by government officials to trace any suspicious activity. How different does that make you from any terror suspect? And if you somehow get hold of data to expose them you become nothing short of a terrorist. Imagine something like this being done by Pakistani government with Indians…World War III would have started and you and I would be taking shelter in a dilapidated building like Anne Frank and writing a journal. But if the government of a nation does the same with its own citizens, it’s supposed to be perfectly acceptable. Yeah right. And if somebody daring enough opposes them, he is put behind bars or chucked out of the country.Why did Snowden have to write to nations for permission to seek asylum? Where is the democracy? And why did nations refuse him permission? The answer is: How could they afford antagonizing the United States of America! And India? Do not even get me started on her! First she was slave to the West by force, now by choice. World integration has become a term of mockery. When the states within a nation are ready to go on war with each other, how can one expect of a whole nation to support somebody from a different nation. Ecuador, the one nation that did give him permission to stay there later gave a statement which said that it was a mistake on their part. The handsome Vladimir Putin was stated as saying ‘Snowden is like an unpleasant Christmas gift’. This whole searching for an asylum by Snowden is definitely an attack on the lost cause of world integration because even in today’s world of democracy in over 150 countries, a man has to spend almost a month at an airport.
