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Free Edward Snowden -- Really?
Townhall.com ^ | January 5, 2013 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 01/05/2014 7:52:22 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/05/2014 7:52:22 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

He’s a hero pure and simple. Our government needed to be exposed and he did it.


2 posted on 01/05/2014 7:53:31 AM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: RIghtwardHo

Depends on how you look at it


3 posted on 01/05/2014 7:54:16 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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Their sending an ice breaker to free Snowed In!
4 posted on 01/05/2014 7:59:09 AM PST by Young Werther (Julius Caesar said "Quae cum ita sunt. Since these things are so.".)
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To: Kaslin

I look at t as a situation without heroes.

Personally I think a much closer look at Booz Allen needs to be taken. The fact that Woolsey works for them now and James Clapper worked for them in the past and they get multi-billion dollar govt contracts sure sounds like cronyism to me.


5 posted on 01/05/2014 8:00:51 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Kaslin
Former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow is not unfamiliar with that sneaking suspicion. He thinks Snowden is a "traitor." If the administration is toying with a deal, he said, it would send a catastrophic message to would-be leakers. To wit: "Just make sure you steal enough."

Well Harlow, if you must destroy the village in order to save it, then I'm not with you; count me out. (My Lai redux)

Substitute constitution for village above and that's what we face.

You broke the law Harlow and now you moan about a person blowing the whistle on your lawbreaking and you dare to call him a "traitor".

Plenty of 'agency' people say you don't need to be recording all of us on every phone call, every email, every Skype session, every internet search etc., in order to track terrorists.

You see Harlow, we as Tea Party conservative patriots have already been designated in your policy notebook as right wing wacko fringe radical terrorists etc. It won't be long before your off-book hidden Federal Reserve backed budget is used against us as you make our members start to 'disappear'. Just as the IRS hounded us and continues to harass us, you will zero your assets on us and find a pretext to go Waco on us. But you will go further with a lot of cleverly constructed strange disappearances and accidents.

Harlow, you are not CIA, you are KGB and your worst nightmare is seeing us take the reins of power where among the first actions should be having your fate mirror Ceausescu's.

Harlow, Tea Party Patriots are going to see if you and your circle have absolute power yet over elections by way of public opinion shaping media and control over election offices in critical counties on the turf of your Detroit like urban archipelago. Because if you don't have absolute control you're toast. You've got 10 months.

6 posted on 01/05/2014 8:27:14 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: cripplecreek

Booz Allen is an asset of CIA and DIA; always has been and always will be.


7 posted on 01/05/2014 8:33:46 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Kaslin

Harlow and Woolsey would make the US a country not worth defending. Thus, we could follow their prescription and then dismantle the CIA and NSA.


8 posted on 01/05/2014 8:34:34 AM PST by oblomov
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To: Kaslin
He's a hero and a traitor.

He should be given some sort of "freedom medal", and a statue with an information plaque erected in Washington, and then shot or hung.

9 posted on 01/05/2014 8:42:52 AM PST by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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He is a hero, however he will never be safe here


10 posted on 01/05/2014 8:45:47 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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"telephony metadata" prevented as many as 50 potential terrorist attacks

Maybe if we stopped opening our borders to those who want to kill us and stopped funding their operations and giving them Cabinet positions we wouldn't need such Orwellian levels of snooping. Maybe that's the point.

Since the only ones now defined as "terrorists are Christians, Tea Party members, Veterans, etc. I have to wonder what those alleged "terrorist attacks" were.

11 posted on 01/05/2014 8:47:54 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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As Edmund Burke allegedly said, “All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing”.

Mr. Snowden, at great personal risk; exposed OUR government, abusing our Constitutional rights in an ongoing, premedicated and illegal manner. Mr. Snowden, knowing that he was going to be persecuted, chose to do the right thing, instead of the easy thing.


12 posted on 01/05/2014 8:52:38 AM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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Hudson Institute senior fellow Gabriel Schoenfeld, author of "Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law," is not impressed. Snowden outed U.S. intelligence "for engaging in activity that almost every state engages in."

That's not a very high standard, is it Debra?

13 posted on 01/05/2014 8:56:05 AM PST by BigBobber
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Shot and hung for what?

Exposing illegal activities by the government? Who’s side do you claim to represent? Killing a whistleblower is a great way to protect Obama and his cronies - who have held the Constitution in utter contempt, and continue to work to destroy it. You appear to be wanting to use murder, to further Obama’s goals.

Edward Snowden lost practically everything he had, to expose the illegal activities of the NSA. He lost his career, his income, his life in the USA, his personal relationships, his home - because he exposed how intrusive the Government has become in tracking it’s citizens, steps the KGB would admire.

And you want to kill him?


14 posted on 01/05/2014 8:57:40 AM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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It is now illegal to blow the whistle on the 4th branch of government doing illegal things...


15 posted on 01/05/2014 8:58:17 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Truth is hate to those who hate the Truth)
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To: Hodar
Mr. Snowden, at great personal risk; exposed OUR government, abusing our Constitutional rights in an ongoing, premedicated and illegal manner. Mr. Snowden, knowing that he was going to be persecuted, chose to do the right thing, instead of the easy thing.

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Agreed.

16 posted on 01/05/2014 9:02:05 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

And meanwhile, the real traitors are immune.


17 posted on 01/05/2014 9:03:05 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: RIghtwardHo

I’m using him as my Write-in candidate.


18 posted on 01/05/2014 9:05:52 AM PST by Usagi_yo
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To: Kaslin

It’s undeniable that Mr. Sowdon conclusively revealed the illegal and unconscionable spying on American citizens by the NSA. No matter what else you say about the guy, this is a truly heroic act.
It’s the Federal government that’s conniving against the people. This is truly heinous and evil and it’s nothing less than a declaration of war by the Federal government against the American citizen.


19 posted on 01/05/2014 9:17:56 AM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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Snowden outed U.S. intelligence "for engaging in activity that almost every state engages in."

Well, this state/country has a Consitution that prohibits such activity without a warrant.

20 posted on 01/05/2014 2:19:04 PM PST by dirtboy
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