Annie Machon | Snowden Debate | Oxford Union

[@garyhughes7518]

Free Julian Assange

[@4comment0nly76]

Best speaker in the line up. Persuasive on all accounts.

[@marionpage1668]

Fantastic, and so true, his is the way all mankind should stand up or our rights. Thank you so much.

[@JGL996]

Excellent points generally, opening points are exceptional and very tactful in the "calling out" of Charles Vaughan.

[@smolderingfox4645]

Tactful? or just truthful? :)

[@JGL996]

well there is a certain point at which the truth can be conveyed in a non tactful way! I am glad she didn't go down the crewed route, that would have made her arguments a little bit less respectable.

[@mkmason2002]

A dynamic speaker with stunning grace. Bravo!

[@celtickshatriya4306]

You madam are a breath of fresh air,I have witnessed first hand the loss of privacy and aĺl agency combined conspiracy,when the lines between criminals and agents become cloudy .

[@jonathanmarsh715]

Actual sense being talked at Hogwarts? This goes against it's policy surely.

[@StevenLillford-Wildman-my8jt]

An excellent talk.

[@makesmefeellikeatalltree8250]

guy in the back picking his nose? really?

[@hedwegg]

Topic: "The Tipping of the Scales".
Balance... (knowing right from wrong and doing what's right)...
is foundational in law and executive decision making.
"To ask" directly or through a third party "for money" concerning
"papers considered classified" is blatantly "tipping the scales".
All for Moral Integrity & truth,
All for Balance.

[@pennykannon2702]

ANNIE, GREAT DEBATE FOR HUMANITY!!!
wtkjr.!!!

[@DianaKazimiera-]

A lecture that should inspire and be a guide...
Great respect,Mrs...🕊️
BOWS !

[@gerzxr838]

Great speaker as is Chris Hedges.

[@donzuck2648]

Hope Annie Machon is doing well now. No recent speeches on UA-cam. She is spot-on with the truth, I could use her intellect and candid way of speaking in my situation of being defrauded by a criminal network that stole my life savings.

[@davidshields948]

The best and most persuasive formal debater I've ever seen.

[@boxer1639]

3:04 Nast guy

[@pahrahinc3895]

Joseph Stalin wrote "Those that win the wars rewrite the history".

[@kirstenheuer6435]

Too much nose picking😨

[@opheliajade1986]

Kirsten Heuer I was about to ask if anyone else noticed that until I read your comment! Lol 😂

[@Jamie-js3qw]

@@opheliajade1986 the cure's other song - Nose-picking Never

[@user-po9sg3ks4p]

Maybe he had a secret camera up his nose lol

[@JP-yw4wx]

Can we hear from the nose picker in the back? What a class act!😡

[@jjjjjjjjzuzuzuzu]

Thank you for standing up for Snowden but on the history of World War II I think you should hit the books again and see the real cost ( the history is written by winners )🤔 we'll give you a hint start with economics of Britain at the time!

[@abdell75roussos]

Full of cr.p.

[@ursulaplatt5000]

The secrets act.

[@90fif]

YOU HAD A SPY/PERSON THERE THAT WAS PURPOSELY SUPPOSED TO THROW YOU OR THE AUDIENCE OFF.....WHEN YOU STARTED TALKING ABOUT SNOWDEN, HEROS ETC... SOMEONE KEPT COUGHING OR MAKING SOME TYPE OF NOISE.....SHIT HAPPENS TO ME A LOT FROM FAMILY TO RANDOM PEOPLE WHEN I GO OUTSIDE BUT IM A BRAIN TECH SLAVE NOT SPY OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT SMFH!!

[@popcycleism]

Aye!

[@elbowroom3663]

Those on the right herein are simply a fearful lot. Heaven forbid they spy their own shadows! There would be no end to their quaking.

[@MariyanZarev]

So much gold digging

[@pawel7923]

anyone else notice the nose picker....she points him out at 3:25

[@ursulaplatt5000]

She's Irish

[@lindiwengwevela524]

She's Guerenésiaise.

[@jdsaunders12]

But he does sign a secracy act....

[@alloomis1635]

machon does not make a logical case. snowden is half pregnant in his claim to release him from his oath. he is not absolutely against surveillance, just against certain areas of surveillance. my respect for him is limited, because he is motivated not by his duty of defense as a citizen, but because it over-stepped his personal taste. nonetheless, some people might decide he has done society a good deed, however flawed.
making claim that he has defended democracy fails, however, because the usa is not a democracy. the people are not sovereign. he was working for the government, and betrayed them. he will go to jail, if caught.
a claim by a brit to respect his defense of democracy is simply laughable. uk remains a nominal monarchy, a real elective oligarchy , better a real elective aristocracy due to its heritage. in reality, the government of the usa is less progressive in some respects, as the constitution froze the nation in a constitution modeled on the britain of george 3rd.
whistleblowers are seldom without flaws, being human, and out of step with the world around them. until they live within a democracy, not in view, they must be masochists who will be punished by their elite masters, and can not be protected by the people they purport to serve. worse, those people commonly turn on the whisleblower for exposing the quality of the ruler to be a shame to all who submit.

[@hazybrain7]

What is Democracy ? And what is Freedom ? I mean that debate will go on ad infinitum, and that's exactly what's happening here, just part of that necessary flow to get closer to that truth. And what is Truth ? Oh God (!) the thing will never end. For me Snowden did a huge service to awakening the world population that Nazism is still alive and thriving, even though many already clearly understood it, he brought it to a world stage and continues to. Priceless really. We're all flawed, and indoctrinated as kids growing up and instilled by a sense of nationalism that can be used to turn us in police, lawyers, politicians, militias in the name of something. But it's the moment you awake from this non-sense and change your ways that really count. And I have to agree with the speaker that Snowden, sacrificed himself for the greater good, even if that isn't the full picture or even ill informed, it's a progression ...