Snowden case shows the US no longer respects human rights

Referring to the report: "Snowden blames broken Obama promises in NSA leak" (June 18), promises are made to be broken, and this is credo of politicians around the world. They are experts in creating dreams, and the public just gets swayed by them.

Only gullible people can believe in the dreams of politicians.

It is high time that there should be laws to govern promises made by the politicians - both in power and while soliciting votes in elections.

Democracy gets strengthened only when politicians are made accountable for the promises they make.

If the US government is claiming that it is protecting US citizens from terrorist attacks - through internet snooping - then the protector should not violate citizens' freedom and privacy. There should be a code of conduct for snooping.

In olden days, kings used to intercept the letters of their subjects. The modern day version of this practice is internet snooping. It is high time that old technologies be used to escape the US' snooping of the internet.