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Post-conviction America: Vanity Fair enshrines Snowden
The Thanks Project ^ | 04/09/2014 | Steve Berman

Posted on 04/09/2014 7:13:48 AM PDT by lifeofgrace

Snowden has been holding court and putting America and its intelligence policies on trial. It should be the reverse: America should be holding court with Snowden on trial.

I don’t agree with the blanket and universal snooping and data collection in which the NSA has been engaging. I think it’s dangerous for many reasons, the most disturbing of which is the temptation to use the data for political purposes.

There should be no illusion here: any society that has the technical capability to offer universal, personal, and mobile access to the largest collection of human knowledge in history, has the capability to track who, where, and what is accessed.

(Excerpt) Read more at thanks-project.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; edwardsnowden; nsa; vanityfair

1 posted on 04/09/2014 7:13:48 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
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To: lifeofgrace

What prevented you from posting your full content?

It’s your blog, you can post the whole thing.


2 posted on 04/09/2014 7:14:34 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: lifeofgrace

SNOWDEN SHOULD BE GIVEN A CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR

AND A HEROES WELCOME BACK


3 posted on 04/09/2014 7:16:39 AM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period. PALIN/CRUZ 2016)
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To: Mr. K

Exactly!


4 posted on 04/09/2014 7:17:38 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: humblegunner

Has been on FR for almost one month.


5 posted on 04/09/2014 7:18:26 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: lifeofgrace

Snowden is a patriot.


6 posted on 04/09/2014 7:18:56 AM PDT by Third Person
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To: goodwithagun

He said he would post the full content a while back..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3135279/posts?page=7#7

And did so a couple of times.
Then he realized he wasn’t getting any blog hits so he went back to excerpting.


7 posted on 04/09/2014 7:21:04 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Mr. K

You don’t know much about the Congressional Medal of Honor, do you?


8 posted on 04/09/2014 7:27:29 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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To: clintonh8r

“You don’t know much about the Congressional Medal of Honor, do you?”

You’re right, it should be (very appropriately) the Presidential Medal of Freedom - although he should wait for the next President to award it. :-)


9 posted on 04/09/2014 8:14:39 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: PreciousLiberty

Then he can be arrested during the ceremony.


10 posted on 04/09/2014 8:18:38 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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To: clintonh8r

“Then he can be arrested during the ceremony.”

There are a lot of folks who should be in jail over this, but Snowden isn’t one of them.


11 posted on 04/09/2014 11:36:48 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: PreciousLiberty

Not until he’s been convicted.


12 posted on 04/09/2014 12:12:27 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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To: clintonh8r

don’t get too literal I was trying to make a point


13 posted on 04/09/2014 1:38:17 PM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period. PALIN/CRUZ 2016)
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To: Mr. K

Either way, it would be an absurdity.


14 posted on 04/09/2014 1:45:57 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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