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Statement From Snowden In Moscow [Rips Obama; Lauds Constitutionalism]
wikileaks.org ^ | July 1, 2013 | Edward Snowden

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.

~ snip ~

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; snowden
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To: ggrrrrr23456

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!


21 posted on 07/01/2013 4:58:33 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: colorado tanker
Living in Russia may not be as bad as you think. Look what we have here now, with sex deviates, Illegals, inner-city tribal parasites, etc., ALL living the lifestyles they choose on other people's money, thanks to The Messiah and the Progressives.

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.

22 posted on 07/01/2013 5:01:34 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: ggrrrrr23456

He did what he had to do.

The doctrine of necessity is unassailable.


23 posted on 07/01/2013 5:06:31 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: colorado tanker

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 ???


24 posted on 07/01/2013 5:10:52 PM PDT by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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To: ggrrrrr23456

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


25 posted on 07/01/2013 5:12:32 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: ggrrrrr23456

Beware of missives, letters, etc purportedly penned by Snowden. This one smells fishy.


26 posted on 07/01/2013 5:13:24 PM PDT by GSWarrior (When someone points at the moon, don't stare at his finger.)
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To: ggrrrrr23456
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.

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.

27 posted on 07/01/2013 5:14:46 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Salgak
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 ???

That may well be. If so, they sure didn't have much of a Plan B for him after the sh@# hit the fan.

28 posted on 07/01/2013 5:17:01 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: ggrrrrr23456

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.


29 posted on 07/01/2013 5:17:44 PM PDT by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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To: ggrrrrr23456

I’ve tried but I can’t work up any sympathy for the U.S. government position represented by Obamugabe.


30 posted on 07/01/2013 5:18:21 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: GSWarrior

This one smells fishy.


This writing does not express his spirit.


31 posted on 07/01/2013 5:22:11 PM PDT by txhurl (RNC 'voter suppression': attempting to limit each voter to ONE vote!)
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To: colorado tanker
I'd sure like to know who put him up to it.

You ignore the possibility that he did it because he believed we needed to know.

32 posted on 07/01/2013 5:33:28 PM PDT by BfloGuy (The imposition of a duty on the importation of a commodity burdens the consumers. --Ludwig Von Mises)
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To: MeganC
Let's see if Snowden notices that the administration built around Obama, and the one that would have been around McCain, both chose to ignore Article II Section 1 of our Constitution. Both tried to amend the Constitution, Conyers twice, Menendez once, Barney Frank once, Orin Hatch Rohrabacher and Nickles, once each, and Obama with McCaskill in February 2008, SB 2678, all in the eight years before going ahead with Obama and McCain, and depending upon public ignorance and a captive media maintain the secrecy around Article II Section 1 and dozens of supreme court cases. Notice that every candidate being floated by the Republican mainstream is a naturalized citizen, as Obama told us he was, and as McCain is, having been born in the unincorporated, until 1937, Panama Canal zone - Rubio, Cruz, Jindal, Haley. Remember the bill sponsored by Obama and his campaign chair Clare McCaskill, Senate Bill 2678, the ‘‘Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act’’, which failed to pass. Does Snowden understand the Constitution?

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.

33 posted on 07/01/2013 5:33:52 PM PDT by Spaulding
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To: fatnotlazy

You know how he writes? It could be his writings.

I’m liking him more and more.


34 posted on 07/01/2013 5:48:40 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: OneWingedShark

A liar against a liar. Who do you believe.


35 posted on 07/01/2013 5:55:08 PM PDT by lu shissler (an take his naiv)
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To: MeganC

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.


36 posted on 07/01/2013 5:58:27 PM PDT by what's up
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To: bgill

Snowden writes actively, not passively. If someone passive were to hack active you, we’d all know it.


37 posted on 07/01/2013 5:59:48 PM PDT by txhurl (RNC 'voter suppression': attempting to limit each voter to ONE vote!)
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To: Salgak
There’s a bit of evidence that he was “groomed” by someone at WikiLeaks,

What evidence, and what do you think of as "grooming."

38 posted on 07/01/2013 6:03:36 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: MeganC
History may well revere Snowden as a martyr of the second American Civil War,

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.

39 posted on 07/01/2013 6:06:35 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: what's up
Oh please. Snowdon is a scrawny OWS punk who was probably applauding the terrorists on 911.

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.

40 posted on 07/01/2013 6:09:21 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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