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 ...
History may well revere Snowden as a martyr of the second American Civil War.
In before, “his orders were clear, and people with money and short haircuts DO NOT LIKE HIM..!”
SUPPORT HIM 100%.
LOL :-)
I'd sure like to know who put him up to it.
I like that.
The Russia of today is far different then the USSR. If you have money.
I was gonna say in before boil ‘im in oil!
He’s being racist against Obammy.
Notice how bread and circus (Zimmerman) has captivated most of ‘us’?
Manning is a wuss.
Hopefully some FReeper can educate me. How exactly is Bradley Manning a whistleblower? As far as I am aware he didn’t disclose any wrongdoing. He merely gave away government secrets.
“It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised....”
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Then the Obama administration has nothing to worry about.
Not enough informed citizens and most don’t even know how to spell C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N, much less what it promised.
That's the issue. Plus not being able to see his own country or family.
Maybe the Russians would hire him as a $200,000 a year intelligence analyst?
Sounds like someone wrote it for him.
I would not be at all surprised if he just “disappeared” never to be heard from again.
President Vladimir Putin says NSA leaker Edward Snowden may stay in Russia, if he wants to, but only if he stops activities aimed against the United States.
“There is one condition if he wants to remain here: he must stop his work aimed at damaging our American partners. As odd as it may sound from me,” Putin told a media conference in Moscow.
In Putin’s opinion, Snowden considers himself “a fighter for human rights” and it seems unlikely that he is going to stop leaking American secret data.
However, Russia is not going to extradite Snowden, the president underlined.
And I had such high hopes for Putin with him bringing back Christianity to Russia. Guess some of his air defense contracts got threatened.
I’m really starting to like this guy. He had the guts to kick the hornet’s nest, and then he had the brains to run like hell. There are probably a lot more Edward Snowdens hiding in the depths of the federal bureaucracy, people who have access to very damaging information about the Regime, and who have absolutely no loyalty to Obama. The Obama administration is probably in full panic mode by now, waiting for the next “traitor” to snap out and humiliate them.
We can hope that is the case.
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