Posted on 04/21/2014 9:21:52 AM PDT by Randall_S
Imagine you were in the position of Snowden. As a contractor to the National Security Agency, you knew that your government was monitoring what seemed to be an indefensible amount of electronic communication, from emails, to phone calls, between ordinary Americans. What would you do? Perhaps you would:
Resign in protest? Go to the Press with declassified information? Point the Press in the right direction, to ask the right questions? Go public? Other whistleblowers in modern American history, such as Daniel Ellsberg, are today hailed as heroes. Help to start a national conversation about fundamental privacy rights, and the Constitutional provisions of the Fourth Amendment?
Maybe you’d do some or all of the above, among others thing. But would you ever consider fleeing to Russia via Hong Kong after leaking a tremendous amount of sensitive classified information to newspapers around the world? Most people consider such a course of action to be plainly treasonous.
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Only cowards think this way.
Or sane men.
From extradition, yes. From assassination, by any means necessary? That's a separate issue; it would depend on how much protection the person was able to obtain.
For the same reasons no one was fired after one morning when four airliners were hijacked, a block of Manhattan was leveled, a fifth of the Pentagon was destroyed and 3000 men, women and children were murdered. Something to do with gross incompetence at the highest levels. If one person gets fired, the rest of the dirty laundry gets dumped out for the public to see.
Yeah, that’s what smart folk do who like being dragged out of his home at 4:00am by a military raid and get renditioned to some gulag. Sounds real smart. What f***ing country do you think you live in and what year do you think it is?! There aren’t anymore rules when dealing with leviathan.
You take a dumbass kid with some social problems and throw him into solitary for a couple of years and he comes out calling himself Chelsea. He probably had as much of a chance coming out of that thinking he was a firetruck.
Did they even do a psych profile of Manning before he was sent off to boot camp ? One would think red flags might go up.
Kill myself.
Recruiting had quatas to fill. Do you know how many 18 year old kids aren’t too obese or incarcerated that wanted to join up once iraq and Afghanistan were clearly cluster foxtrot? And at the time I think the army wasn’t allowed to ask if Corporal Klinger was their favorite character on MASH.
It’s outrageous. How else will the Private Pyles (not Gomer, but ‘Full Metal Jacket’) be weeded out before they go and do something... nutty ?
Then you are naive.
I know what country I live in. Unlike you I am not a Jones or Ventura fan. I do not believe that the US govt planned the OKC bombing or the 9/11 attacks.
I know of NO instance in which anyone in the US has been “dragged out of his home at 4:00am by a MILITARY RAID....” If you have such evidence please enlighten me.
I live in a representative republic. The constitution tells us how to change our country. The communists and useful dupes of the left are doing their best to destroy this country. I see NO reason to play that game.
If you truly believe that you live in a country that is worse than the Soviet Union (formerly known as Russia) then you too are free to move anywhere you would feel more comfortable
You, me and everyone else in this country lives in the hollowed out husk of what was once a constitutional republic. You live in a country where getting on an airplane involves a process akin to being booked after arrest and if you're lucky, government employees won't feel up your grandmother and daughter on your way to Disneyland.
At this point if I have to point you to one documented story after another of these raids, I'm content to just sit back and wait for it to happen to someone you care about. I'm sure you were waving your flag and singing your Lee Greenwood songs while house to house raids were happening in Boston last year.
Oh, and if you want me to leave so bad, how about you sack up and make me leave. Fools like you stood by and cheered while this police state was being built. Thanks to cheeeading simps like you, the US is now just as bad as the other police states, so I'll save the moving expenses now that the freedom battlefield has been leveled.
I assigned NOTHING to you. I stated what I believe and what I cannot. If that is too hard for you so be it. You still haven’t given me the example of someone being rousted from their bed at 4 am in the US by a MILITARY RAID
You point me to nothing so please for my own edification tell me where has the military raided anyone???
Go take a look at the pictures and videos of the house to house raids in Boston last year. Looks like a military operation to me and anyone paying attention. It doesn’t have to be US Army to be military.
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