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"Snowden Belongs in Jail, Not in Switzerland"
Foreign Policy ^
| 9/12/14
| John Hudson
Posted on 09/12/2014 4:38:58 PM PDT by babylon_times
This week, Switzerland's attorney general completed a legal opinion on the question of whether Snowden could be granted political asylum if he traveled to Switzerland to testify about the National Security Agency's surveillance activities in the Swiss homeland. The AG's office concluded that Snowden would be given asylum as long as prior obligations made by higher-level Swiss officials did not take priority.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; snowden; switzerland; us
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What would you do if you were in Snowden's shoes, and saw the full extent of he US's Spying???
To: babylon_times
The people violating our Constitutional rights belong in jail.
Snowden deserves a Medal of Freedom.
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:41:08 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: babylon_times
H0lder belongs in jail.
Snowden for AG.
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:41:20 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: babylon_times
Actually it’s Obama that should be in jail... Duh...
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:42:05 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
To: babylon_times
He did the right thing, and is paying a steep price for it. I would hope on of our “allies” that learned we were spying on them through him would offer him asylum.
He was demonized for letting the cat out of the bag while Otoken was in office; if he did it to Bush he would be a hero of the left.
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:44:09 PM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: hosepipe
I agree.
The ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF is guilty of TREASON and should be punished accordingly!
6
posted on
09/12/2014 4:44:34 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: babylon_times
“What would you do if you were in Snowden’s shoes, and saw the full extent of he US’s Spying??? “
Honestly?? I would have put out the lights and gone home. I’m a coward,I guess.
.
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:46:39 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: babylon_times
Louis Lerner, James Clapper, John Koskinen, Eric Holder—all of these individuals committed perjury. Where do they belong? Just a question. And the feckless fool on the hill has been lying for six years. Where does that individual belong?
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:47:04 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(Do not read this if you do not appreciate Billy May.)
To: babylon_times
What would you do if you were in Snowden's shoes, and saw the full extent of he US's Spying??? I'm so glad I wasn't presented this moral dilemma. I know for me, I'd probably err on the side of my written promise and vow. I probably couldn't have revealed a thing.
However, and in disgust, I would have quit the job, and probably quit the United States.
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:49:59 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: babylon_times
Snowden belongs in a Supermax cell along with Trofimoff, Ames, Hansen and other traitors. His disclosure of domestic espionage was a cover for his traitorous handing over of information to foreign interests. Too bad the Rosenbergs were the last spies (stateside) to be executed for espionage.
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:50:05 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: babylon_times
0bama belongs in jail, not on the golf course
then again, king putz hasn’t finished destroying the country
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:51:38 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: Mears
Honestly?? I would have put out the lights and gone home. I’m a coward,I guess.Nah. That's not cowardice, that's personal integrity. To have access to the knowledge of this spying, you would have signed certain vows of silence and other documents like that.
I guess I would draw the line at relocation and/or injury and murder.
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:52:26 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: kearnyirish2
>>He did the right thing<<
Yes, giving or enemies information that might get our people killed (or has done so) is the “right thing.”
Not in my book.
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:52:28 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
To: babylon_times
I think he did us all a huge service
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:53:07 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Vendome
The people violating our Constitutional rights belong in jail.
Snowden deserves a Medal of Freedom.
____________
Could not agree more
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:54:12 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: Vendome
Snowden deserves a Medal of Freedom.His *motivations* deserve a Medal of Freedom.
His *actions* deserve prosecution.
... and this is probably why people are so torn about this issue. It's an awfully fine line.
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:54:29 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: Zhang Fei
Snowden belongs in a Supermax cell along with Trofimoff, Ames, Hansen and other traitors. His disclosure of domestic espionage was a cover for his traitorous handing over of information to foreign interests. T
Pretty much. If it was just a matter of whistleblowing, I'd give him a medal. The US Government is a nest of lying dirtbags, and Snowden is a lying dirtbag also. I hope they both lose.
It says something when the feds are more enraged at the whistleblowing than the overt spying he did. Even the most naive should know who the enemy is now.
To: babylon_times
Snowden deserves The Congressional Medal of Honor.
No, I am not joking
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:55:11 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz 2016)
To: yldstrk
I think he did us all a huge serviceAbsolutely. He did.
He also did us all a huge disservice.
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:55:12 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: babylon_times
If he obtains asylum in Switzerland then he will be red meat for Mitch Rabb
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posted on
09/12/2014 4:55:25 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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