Posted on 07/01/2013 4:06:32 PM PDT by ggrrrrr23456
One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful.
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For decades the United States of America has been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.
In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be.
(Excerpt) Read more at wikileaks.org ...
the sit in guy for Dennis Miller today is a lawyer and he called Snowden a traitor for providing secrets to OUR ENEMIES. Since Russia and China are not in war with the US, I presume the enemies of which he refers are the Muslim terrorists that are trying to kill Americans. If in fact the Muslim terrorists are the enemies he is referring to, then that would be ALL Muslim terrorist organization to include the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Queda, the Taliban etc..... all of which this fraud president has given either direct or indirect support, both financially and military weaponry. Why hasn’t anybody of clout and notoriety accused the obozo hussein of being a traitor and given the facts of all he’s done, why is he not behind bars? Sarc!
There no longer is a We The People House, Senate, POTUS, DOJ, or USSC.....they're all in the same cesspool of keeping Power paid for on the backs of producers, who have no Representation at all.
We The People don't send in Millions to the War Chests, so we don't count. They're even trying to buy up all the ammo, to keep it from you, and, they are ready to use it on U.S. Citizens who resist their Power.
He did what he had to do.
The doctrine of necessity is unassailable.
There’s a bit of evidence that he was “groomed” by someone at WikiLeaks. Why ELSE would they be waiting for him at the airport in Hong Kong when he arrived, before he told anyone anything ???
Snowden is fine with me.
But you know, I was at a casual dinner party in 1980 in San Francisco with several topnotch scientific people. Chinese-American guys, employed in Silicon Valley. They quite openly and matter of factly talked about the spying that goes on...The Chinese spy on America, the Americans spy on China. New weapons are manufactured, followed almost instantly by new deterrents, followed by new weapons, followed by new....like some crazy game of weapons tennis. They just shrugged it off...everyone knows, they said.
Now let’s see...think think...who could be playing this game? Surely not large corporations who manufacture the stuff. And sell it overseas. That could never happen, could it?
So I’m looking a little askance at the Snowden Affair. Is some sort of America v Russia game being played out before our eyes? Who in the world is going to make money on this one? What’s in it for whom? I don’t mean to be cynical. But
Beware of missives, letters, etc purportedly penned by Snowden. This one smells fishy.
There's a right to asylum? A right to asylum after divulging our secrets to the Chinese? And this right is found where? In the UN Declaration of Human Rights? Oh... I see.
Sorry, but this Snowden weenie is some kind of leftist dupe with a Guy Fawkes mask in his closet. His prose reads like Democrat Underground dramaqueen boilerplate. Like when they think they're being profound.
I've tried but I can't work up any sympathy for him.
That may well be. If so, they sure didn't have much of a Plan B for him after the sh@# hit the fan.
Appeals to the UN (what a joke) Charter rather than the US Constitution. Who cares what the 14th Article of the UN says.....NOBODY in any other country takes it seriously.
I’ve tried but I can’t work up any sympathy for the U.S. government position represented by Obamugabe.
This one smells fishy.
You ignore the possibility that he did it because he believed we needed to know.
Monitoring communications traffic goes back at least thirty years. All telephony switches have a government monitoring provision/capability. We used “big data” techniques to identify Al-Qaeda cells before 9/11 and didn't use the information, probably because internecine rivalry kept the information from the agencies with authority to act. Read about Able Danger, Curt Weldon's House Intelligence sponsored project with the DIA. That technology is now in hundreds of police districts around the world. and can be purchased openly from such firms as I2, what used to be the “Analyst's Workbench” and “Analyst's Notebook”. I2 passed out their maps identifying 9/11 Terrorists in the early 90s to market their version of the technology. The Maps of terrorists and of all those associations gathered from telephone and bank records to Osama bin Laden. Those data were not passed to the FBI by military agencies competing for resources or we might have prevented 9/11. The 9/11 Committee omitted mention of the Able Danger analysis and Jamie Gorelick explicitly refused to take the report from Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, who was part of the data mining project that identified most of the 9/11 cell, including their locations, before 9/11.
Let's hope Snowden, who now has an international spotlight, will reveal the misuse of such techniques, because the technology is here to stay. It is indeed Constitutional guarantees of individual sovereignty that are being trampled by an increasingly tyrannical government that needs oversight. Exposing that our government is headed by a man who does not have a Constitutional mandate to govern should be at the top of the list, but the power held by the usurper's organization is too daunting for most citizens to challenge. If the Supreme Court has no longer the independence to protect and defend, along with our military, now dying to support Muslim Brotherhood operations, whose officers swore an oath to the Constitution, not the President, will sacrifice our men and women rather than honor their sworn oath, Snowden could come out of this a hero by pointing out the truth.
You know how he writes? It could be his writings.
I’m liking him more and more.
A liar against a liar. Who do you believe.
Oh please. Snowdon is a scrawny OWS punk who was probably applauding the terrorists on 911.
He’s a hero over on DU...seeking refuge in commie countries
Like Russia China and Nicaragua. Sheesh.The guy is slime.
Snowden writes actively, not passively. If someone passive were to hack active you, we’d all know it.
What evidence, and what do you think of as "grooming."
IDK about martyr, that remains to be seen. but if your side of the Second Civil War is to oppose totalitarianism, this guy is on your side.
And you know this how? What is your evidence. Or do you have any.
Lot of wholly confused junior birdmen around here all of a sudden.
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