[Nowhere Man]

I respect your opinion but these are trying times, we are in a different world now. Heck, I daresay we have become the Evil Empire, something that I predicted in 1983 (wish I was wrong, it was just a question, then, tossed out for discussion) when there would be a day where Russia and the US switch roles. Just following orders that go against the Constitution and the rights of people are illegal and immoral and I stick up for these troops voicing their opinion. Heck, if my (step) nephew is ever drafted, my father (he remarried, my nephew is the son of my step sister) and we would help him go to Canada, Sweden wherever. I know another young man who wanted to join, but his father, a Vietnam Vet, "talked" him put of it saying, "if you do, I'll beat you to a pulp and disown you."

We are a sick country. We have a cancer in our nation. It is known as Obama, the bad economy, overbearing government and running around the world kicking hornet's nests. It did not start with him, it started a long time ago but now we are pouring gasoline on the fire. We are the Evil Empire. Pogo Possum said it all, "we've met the enemy, he is us." Like a cancer patient, we will have to get sicker and endure a lot to get better. Perhaps people like this servicemen and Snowden is the chemo we need.

[dfwgator]

Heck, I daresay we have become the Evil Empire, something that I predicted in 1983 (wish I was wrong, it was just a question, then, tossed out for discussion) when there would be a day where Russia and the US switch roles

Solzhenitsyn saw it coming as well.