Posted on 07/02/2013 12:05:08 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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0bama is going to throw a tantrum and hold his breath till his lips turn purple!
so much for obama having more leeway after his election
How about for a SuperBowl ring? Deal?
Snowden is officially a pawn.
This is what happens when not one out of a thousand people ahve ever read the US Constitution. It is what happens when schools refuse to teach US History, Civics and especially the founding documents. It is what happens when congress get’s so bogged down in destroying the Republic that they allow a hero to be persecuted. It is what happens when the USSR looks freer than the USSA.
EXCLUSIVE: Pro-US Hacker 'The Jester' Takes Aim at Nations Helping Snowden (targets Venezuela)
Sure looks like it.
Obama’s going to need a new pair of knee pads over this deal.
What a leader what a leader. /s
Yes, but his protein intake will be good.
Watch him send over Jesse Jackson to negotiate his release.
However, the Russians have not at all indicated that they intend to hand Snowden over to Obama...nor should they.
Snowden has applied to numerous countries, and the US is contacting each of them and threatening them should they take Snowden in.
Why?
1st, why would a young man, who had a very good paying job, a very good standard of living, with an apparent very good relationship with a beautiful young woman, throw all of that away? He certainly is not materially, or life-style wise better off. He is now a fugitive and living in a Moscow airport with no passport or "nationality," to fall back on. Why would he do this? Certainly not for personal gain.
Why would the US government go to such measures to track down and try and take down and incarcertae this individual? What he has said is not only true, but now, much higher level and former employees of the NSA (including the former Director of intelligence at the NSA, William Benny, who had 6,000 analysis working for him and on this program) have come forward and verified everything Snowden has said and more.
See the following interview of several of them:
Interview with three high level NSA and other Government whistle blowers
The answer is straight forward.
Snowden saw a horrible violation of the US Constitution and US law taking place before his very eyes. He had taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution. Apparently he took his oath seriously and so he informed the people of the United States what was happening in such a way that most of them would surely hear about it.
And for that he is paying a price...and may well pay it for the rest of his life.
Would you be willing to do the same?
Many of the people who have vested interests in this PRISM program Snowden called attention to, are angry. They want Snowden arrested and incarcerated. They call him a traitor because he reveled their secret program which was secretly collecting the peronal effect, coommunication, and information on all Americans...without their consent, without any probable cause of crime, and clearly in violation of the Constitution.
So...who is the traitor?
Traitors in espionage and intelligence either hurt the US Constitution and the interests of the nation and the people based on that constitution, or they reveal its secrets to the enemy.
But Snowden revealed the "secrets" he was aware of to the people of the United States. Are we the enemy?
That's a more important question than many of us realize. Apparently, to some within the power structures of our own government...we are.
Compare the activities and actions of these people (Snowden on one hand, and those screaming for his head on the other) to the actions of our founding fathers in 1775-1776.
Which ones back then were called traitors and were sought to be jailed and maybe killed by the ruling authorities of that day? Which ones called for freedom of the people without the ruling governments complete over sight?
The answers to those questions are very revealing.
hmmm isn’t his lips already purple?
Just in case you did not fully understand Mr. Putin's message, allow me to clarify:
Putin needs to be cautious. If Obama gets mad he might give African citizens Obamacars and then the planet will boil over (including Russia).
Indeed it always increases when he’s on tour.
Naa Jesse to busy doing shack downs to go.
You're absolutely correct! Maybe we can get him to pop a blood vessel instead.
Well done, Jeff. I like the way you think.
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