Feds prepping charges against Edward Snowden: Sources

CBS News ^ | June 11, 2013

[cuban leaf]

This is exactly why I loathe Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved, they both seem to be the “Moderation in Pursuit of Justice” types...

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Yup. I take very seriously the comments by Claire Wolfe in the book 101 Things to Do Before the Revolution”

“America is at that awkward stage: It’s too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the bast**ds.”

Frankly, I don’t know when it will hit the latter stage, but I believe our founding fathers would have started shooting by now.

But we live in a different world today. That solution is not really practical. And I think “they” know it and it is their most powerful weapon. They are like the bully that knows you won’t ramp it up so they just keep pushing. Successfully. Until you end up like the kid in A Christmas Story that has simply had enough.

[EGPWS]

I wonder if he will be up for charges as bad as those given to that eeevviiiil Nakoula? /s

[skeeter]

Yeah, I kinda figured they'd try to make an example of this guy.

All the corruption in government and they sit on their fat *sses, but boy can they move when they want to.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

There’s a lot of that going around the past couple of days. John Bolton comes to mind immediately, and I know there were a half dozen mentioned yesterday. Even most of the bunch on “The Five” seem to have shown their statist side on this issue.

One problem is that, when the NSA wiretapping story broke during the Bush administration, many so-called "conservatives" said that it was no big deal, and called for the prosecution of the leakers (and the NY Times/Washington Post, who broke the story). Once you stake out that position, it's hard to then turn aroud and say that the guy who leaked this NSA program is a hero.

[skeeter]

You must not have been listening to Medved during the 2008 election, because he shouldn’t have had a single conservative fan after that fiasco.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Until you end up like the kid in A Christmas Story that has simply had enough.

Like when the people stormed and ransacked Stasi headquarters in the last days of East Germany.

[cuban leaf]

You must not have been listening to Medved during the 2008 election, because he shouldn’t have had a single conservative fan after that fiasco.

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I was still a diehard fan of his. I thought it was an abheration and maybe he knew something I didn’t. I’ve met with Medved. He is a very nice guy and quite intelligent. Turning on him, for me, was almost like turning on a trusted family friend. It took a LOT of evidence to finally push me over the edge. And yes. Now I feel kinda stupid. I shoulda done it in 2008.

[cuban leaf]

Like when the people stormed and ransacked Stasi headquarters in the last days of East Germany.

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Something like that...

[skeeter]

Medved struck me as a reformed liberal who was tolerant of conservatives only because it provided him a gig that paid well.

IMO he is insufferably condescending. But it was his patronizing, GOPe tone on illegal immigration that turned me off on him years ago.

[Gator113]

For now, I stand with Snowden.

[cuban leaf]

Yeah, Medved’s attitude toward Christians and Christianity always puzzled me. He says he is not Christian and is Jewish, yet he was such an apologist for Christianity I constantly found myself saying, “How can he say what he just said and not also profess Christ?” IOW, he sounded, disengenuous and, as you say, condescending.

[Lucky9teen]

Interesting how someone who speaks the truth and tries to do right by this country is hunted down and called a Traitor, and yet the true Traitors in DC, who have unabashedly done everything in their power to circumvent the Constitution and rule of law to destroy this nation, are ignored and excused away. Isaiah 5:20 ►New International Version (©2011) Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

[Lucky9teen]

Rand Paul Seeks 10 Million Signatures in Class Action Suit Against US Government

[cuban leaf]

And another thing regarding Medved: The fourth amendment is very clear. The information Snowden has supplied, assuming it is true, ABSOLUTELY demonstrates a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. How Medved can support it simply does not pass the smell test. When people’s actions do not match the visible cause, it means they are being driven by an invisible cause.

Medved is motivated by something other than what he would have us believe, though I don’t know what it is.

[skeeter]

Medved is motivated by something other than what he would have us believe, though I don’t know what it is.

IMO Medved shares with big government types the same knee-jerk opposition to any issue that impassions constitutionally grounded conservatives.

This is because the issues he really does care about deep down inside require a state leviathan.

[GraceG]

“America is at that awkward stage: It’s too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the bast**ds.”

It is time for “NON-VIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE”

That is the middle stage!!!

[MinuteGal]

A Snowden indictment and trial will make the politics-driven Zimmerman case look like small potatoes.

Leni

[SeminoleCounty]

Yes....Snowden affair has really exposed how statist many self-described “conservatives” really are.

[sten]

3 million classified documents leaked to our enemies... 3+ years ago... and it’s ho-hum

a contractor alerts the people that the NSA is listening to phone calls and the internet (didn’t we know this?)... and he’s a traitor that needs to be ‘sanctioned with extreme prejudice’

funny how that is

[skeeter]

IMO Snowden's trial will be nearly blacked out by the state run media.

Can't have any martyrs.