Dear USA,
Hello.
Here’s a to-do list for you:
1. Free and pardon Assange and Manning.
2. Pardon Snowden and allow him to return to normal life in his own country, the USA.
3. Unshackle Wikileaks’ funding and allow them to raise funds as usual.
4. Book and punish those who flouted human rights whether in the current or previous administration, whether civilian or military, American or non-American, NATO or non-NATO.
5. Pay repatriation to the families and communities of the innocents you killed. Ensure that the repatriation amount (a) is large enough that it presumes they were all American citizens, and (b) is recovered from the perpetrators of the crime, however high an office they have held or continue to hold.
6. Pay repatriation to Assange, Manning, Snowden, and Wikileaks.
7. Apologise to them.
8. Apologise to the nations you wronged. Apologise to your own people for having surveilled them and controlled and directed their opinions.
Then, talk of press freedom, democracy, freedom of speech, and other such moral grandstanding.
Till then, shut the fuck up. And stay shut up.
Clean your house first. You are supposed to be someone we all look up to it. Earn it.
And yes, return that Nobel while you are at it. It’s more than a bit embarrassing.
Sincerely,
The Rest of the World
P.S: Dear India, stay seated. Don’t make an ass of yourself.
