You expressed that very well. As for Snowden, I'm with you on that. If find it strange that Germany offers asylum to virtually anyone, but not to Snowden and Julian Assange. As for Obama listening to "friends" I too thought that was outrageous, as well as the many other abuses we've learned about since he left office.
Strangely, even now, after all we have learned about him and his administration, I bet Germans would vote for him as president of the EU if they could. (Full disclosure, I voted for him twice.) I think where we differ somewhat is that I see globalist interests behind the surveillance state, corporate media, high tech, etc. I don't know who these power brokers behind the scene are, and I don't imagine I will find out.
Let's keep in mind, even a billionaire, both as a candidate and as a president, was a victim of the deep state ohne Borders surveillance :-) It seems to me our world and freedom in general are in a very precarious state.