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The Terminal: Snowden stuck in Moscow airport, 'can't buy ticket with invalid passport'
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Posted on 06/26/2013 6:18:18 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick
beginning to remind me of the short story “man without a country’ by Edward Everett Hale. Phillip Nolan, an army officer curses his country and is sentenced to sail forever on a Navy ship without ever seeing the United States.
A Russian air terminal has to be a worse hell than a Navy ship if you have to stay there forever.
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posted on
06/26/2013 6:35:40 AM PDT
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: RummyChick
It’s Russia. Anything can be had for the right price.
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posted on
06/26/2013 6:35:46 AM PDT
by
relictele
(A place dedicated to economic, racial and social equality. It was called Jonestown.)
To: relictele
Its Russia. Anything can be had for the right price. Just like this country.
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posted on
06/26/2013 6:38:07 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: informavoracious
As I remember, the Underwear bomber was able to board his flight without a passport. He had someone helping clear the bureaucracy while posing as a Sudanese refugee. I imagine Snowden is viewed in a similar manner these days by many nations.
To: Travis McGee
“He began in Hawaii. If he’d gotten on a sailboat, he’d be posting from Ecuador today.”
Not exactly ...
He’d be sitting in a Tampa, FL prison for being a father to his blood children.
To: Travis McGee
“He began in Hawaii. If he’d gotten on a sailboat, he’d be posting from Ecuador today.”
Not exactly ...
He’d be sitting in a Tampa, FL prison for being a father to his blood children.
Thank you CNN rats.
To: RummyChick
I wonder if they will make him a citizen and issue him a passport.
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To: RummyChick
Posted 6/24: "My guess is that Snowden is going to get stuck in the Ecuadorian Embassy in Moscow, until that country issues him a passport."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3034984/posts
Not bad, eh?
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posted on
06/26/2013 7:04:33 AM PDT
by
kenavi
("Beware of rulers, for they befriend only for their own benefit." Gamliel)
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
06/26/2013 7:30:03 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
To: wildbill
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posted on
06/26/2013 7:36:12 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
To: RummyChick
I don’t think he will have any trouble buying a ticket. He’s waiting for Ecuador to give him the final OK to get asylum. Or maybe Iceland who knows?
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posted on
06/26/2013 7:39:35 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: RummyChick
Oh man! great image...lol
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posted on
06/26/2013 8:11:17 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
(It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
To: silverleaf
Maybe he misses his ex girl friend and just wants to stay at the airport and get fondled on a regular basis by security?
Terrible, my apologies.
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posted on
06/26/2013 8:38:38 AM PDT
by
glyptol
To: yldstrk
I have never had an airline check my passport before taking my money for a ticket...and before boarding? Because it's no use being able to buy a ticket if you still aren't allowed onboard.
Also: Ever try to fly from Moscow without a passport?
In post-Soviet Russia, airline take money, not issue you ticket, then report you to authorities!
I was once marooned for 24 hours at Domodedovo International Airport, where I had arrived (late - the Ukrainian plane had been delayed) from the Crimea, because my (substitute) connecting flight back to Western Europe was from a different terminal - just because I didn't have a valid Russian visa which the small-minded bureaucrats required to travel the few hundred meters in the airport bus.
Regards,
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posted on
06/26/2013 9:05:13 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: RummyChick
To: RummyChick
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posted on
06/26/2013 10:39:02 AM PDT
by
Fred
(http://arkancide.com)
To: George from New England; wardaddy
He didn't know the right people in Hawaii. He should have spent more time hanging around the Ala Wai Marina. Plenty of skippers could get him non-stop to Ecuador or anyplace else in the Pacific. You just need a few friends among the long-distance cruising crowd, well represented there. Hawaii is a great pitstop or hub for long-distance sailros. Heck, he could have purchased a 30 footer for cash and just disappeared for good without leaving a forwarding address. He was very smart about the crypto stuff, but his escapeology tradecraft was dismally poor.
My own escape pod, mid-Pacific. I sailed solo from Panama to Hawaii to Guam. I could have had a SEAL squad aboard, and none the wiser.
And there are thousands of us out there crisscrossing the oceans right now. (Shoot, just the Brits would be thousands.) Airport security lines give govts the impression of omniscience. They are just cattle dipping lines for those who can't sail.
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posted on
06/26/2013 1:05:39 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Fred
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posted on
06/26/2013 1:06:15 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
“Airport security lines give govts the impression of omniscience. They are just cattle dipping lines for those who can’t sail.”
Or fly their own damned plane. :)
People acquiesce.
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posted on
06/26/2013 5:27:21 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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