The Snowden Affair
- Thread starter AssassinsMace
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I just saw john Kerry talking about that at press conference in brunei. it was quite amusing watching these jokers because that was not the same kind of language they used against china just a mere few weeks ago!
MwRYum
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Who knows a "29 years old hacker" (in Obama's words) can make the US top officials change their public scripts so radically in such a short time? All he did was telling the world what we've been suspecting Uncle Sam doing behind our backs are true, if not in much grander scale that even Hollywood screenwriters can't match.
Now they're doing everything they can to get back to the good old days of China bashing with impunity...
Equation
Lieutenant General
Uh oh now you got the Bush (former administration) coming out to support the current one. How often do we see two parties agreed on helping and lending support to each other than a terrorist or natural disaster in this country? I find it odd and weird.
MwRYum
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That's becasue it's all for "US interest", and if you do your homework, you'd realise that's what truly matter to US, not liberty and freedom...that's why we see politicians on both side of the aisle rally behind Obama.
Yes I read that too. Bush is saying Snowden hurt national security. But Bush is the one who put the apparatus together, and so he is going to defend it.
Using it to track terrorists and criminals specifically is allowed under the Constitution if specific probable cause is cited and a warrant issues based on it for that specific time.
But that is not what they are doing...and these elitists actually believe that they can "watch over us all better," if they have complete control. At least that is what they want to push off on the masses. But it is not about "helping us," it is about controlling us. And in so doing they themselves are breaking their oath to the constitution, to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution...which they are not doing.
And I emailed them those words myself.
MwRYum
Major
Because most Americans don't recognize it's not just the foreigners and foreign governments the NSA snooping at - it's everyone who utilize networked electronic devices in the world - and major US media outlets help reinforce this perception. Media and the ruling power walk very closely in the US, despite the US preach repeatedly that it should be the opposite. On the same analogy, terrorism is something you watch happens somewhere else on CNN until 9-11 and Boston marathon bombing...the American people are convinced that NSA snoops just outside US borders so to keep US safe and at the leading edge, thus they dance in the tune instead demanding serious answers from their politicians.
Since the public not asking questions...well, you know the rest.
broadsword
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Snowden is making asylum requests to eighteen countries, including China. I will be disappointed if China declines outright.
MwRYum
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Outright decline or give no response does the same thing in the end...now comes whether Snowden still have something unreleased that'd make whoever accept him worth the trouble of weathering US retaliation.
In any case, with the US public opinion towards him now lean towards "treason" argument, Snowden now really have next to nothing to lose.
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