Posted on 08/28/2013 11:04:36 PM PDT by TexGrill
BRATISLAVA, August 29 (RIA Novosti) – The chairman of Russia’s lower house of parliament has likened fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden to the hero of Miguel de Cervantes’ novel.
“You know, I compare him [Snowden] to Cervantes’ hero, Don Quixote,” State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin said Wednesday in an interview with Slovak television during an official visit to Bratislava.
“He is very much like him in some way: also naïve to a certain degree, honorable and selfless,” Naryshkin said. “But unlike Don Quixote, who fought windmills, Snowden fights violations committed by the state machine,” he said.
“Can he be called a spy? He did not cooperate with the intelligence services of Slovakia, Russia, France or China. Was he fulfilling somebody’s task? No. He did that himself because of his views that the rights of millions of our planet’s citizens need to be protected. And he did that,” Naryshkin said.
He said Snowden had not disclosed to the public some secret information on the location of US military units, but told the public that the United States was spying on many of its and other countries’ nationals, “thus violating the basic human rights.”
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Selfless my ass.
In Other words he is ****ing us about
Funny how none of this sticks to Obama.
LOL
More like Shakespears “Comedy of Errors”.
Lost perhaps is the Palin comment from years back, that being that she could see Russia from Alaska. If standing on Little Diomode island, she could see Russia. A point Palin neglected to make to Couric.
Snowden is being used by both sides. Regardless, obama hates him for exposing the police state he and bush created.
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