Edward Snowden:
The Influence of
Birth Order
The media has been all a
buzz about the NSA, their collection
of data on all Americans
and foreigners as well. The agency’s
position is that it is
keeping Americans safe. Others feel it
is
an attack on the 4th and 5th Amendments and the privacy of
our citizens. It appears it
was Edward Snowden, a former
employee of the CIA and NSA that
started this discussion
with his leaking of information he
illegally took from the
NSA. Just who is
Edward Snowden and are his
actions in
keeping with his birth order?
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden was born
June 21, 1983. He has a sister
Joy who was born April, 2
1979, four years and two months
older than Edward. This gives Edward a Two/Only double
birth order as he was four
years apart in school from his
sister. He will demonstrate the Two birth order 50%
of the
time and the Only birth
order 50%.
The Two/Only Birth Order
Just what are the traits
of this birth order combination? The
number Two birth order is
the person that does not want to
be told what to do. In fact, they are a bit secretive of their
life letting only a few
trusted people in. They see things in
life
clearly as good and bad,
black and white. Once their mind is
made up they will rarely
change positions. This is the birth
order sometimes referred
two as the stubborn middle child.
When you add the Only
influence to this birth order you get
an immovable object. The Only birth order, powers up this
number Two to go where
others would fear to go. They take
their mission seriously and
he may have felt that the intrusion
into one’s life by the NSA
was wrong. On a personal level he
would have hated the
intrusion into his personal life and
projected that feeling on to others.
Childhood
Edward grew up the son of
an officer in the US Coast Guard,
his Mother a clerk in the US District
Court in Maryland. His
parents divorced and he was
described by friends as a shy,
quiet, nice boy. He was always articulate
even as a child, an
Only child trait. He missed several months of
school due to
illness and rather than return to school passed
the test for his
GED. This Two/Only studied the Japanese
language, had a
basic understanding of Mandarin Chinese and
listed
Buddhism as his religion.
Adulthood
In 2004 he enlisted in the
US Army Reserve as a Special
Forces recruit and wanted to go to Iraq
to “help free people
from oppression”. He never finished his
training having
broken both legs in training. In 2006 he joined the CIA
to
work on IT security. This took him to Geneva, Switzerland
and
Japan. He supported Ron Paul in
the 2008 Presidential
Election and held off on his leaking
security information
waiting on President Obama to make changes, they
never
came. People at the NSA told a
Forbes reporter that
Snowden was
a genius among geniuses. He was
“principled and
ultra-competent, and eccentric". He had
unlimited access to NSA data,
“because he could do things
nobody else could.”
Leaks
Snowden first made contact
with The Guardian newspaper in
2012. He also contacted
documentary filmmaker Laura
Poitras to help get his story out. In May of 2013
he asked for
temporary leave from his position in Hawaii and
flew to Hong
Kong. The published reports told of operational
details of
global surveillance among most Western countries. This
showed the NSA had spied on most world leaders, specifically
German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He is now living in Russia
since
leaving Hong Kong on June 23, 2013.
Snowden the Idealist
Snowden believes what he
did was right and no one will
change his mind. This Two/Only will never give in to the
government and make a deal to stop his
disclosures. He
has written “ I believe
in the principle declared at
Nuremberg in
1945; “Individuals have international duties
which transcend the national obligations of obedience.
Therefore individual citizens have
the duty to violate
domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and
humanity from occurring.” “people all over the world are
coming to
realize that the NSA’s surveillance programs put
people in danger, hurt
the US and its economy, and limit our
ability to speak and think and
live and be creative, to have
relationships and associate freely as well
as putting people at
risk of coming into conflict with our own government.”
He
sees himself as a crusader for liberty,he will never give
in.
This Two/Only is indeed an immovable
object.
You can find more
information on Double Birth orders in my
book: Life’s Fingerprint: How Birth Order Affects Your Path
Dr. Robert V.V. Hurst
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