Snowden
 

Should be interesting to see if his flight from Moscow to Cuba drifts into US airspace without proper papers :devil2:

-spence

I think the NSA should find the KGB agent that likes to use thallium and hire him. Just for the day of course.

probably make an outstanding liberal college professor some day at a major United States University with tremendous knowledge and life experience to impart to the undergrads :uhuh:

People in the previous thread were recognized for what they did AFTER their transgressions.

If you're going to try and play a witty gotcha at least get your fundamentals right.
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right...let's engage in fantasies of him dead so there is no "AFTER"....nice fundamentals:devil2:

and you not only commended the individuals for what they did "after" but you excused and defended their actions at the time for various reasons....fundamentals...:)

Back on task... While Snowden supposedly made us weaker according to the bigger government types, he did an important thing for the opressed. At least there is some dicussion about big brother violating the Constitution and collecting evidence against the people without their knowledge..
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I think it funny that this happened under the most liberal of settings. I always have said a democrat will vote to strip you of your rights before anyone else will. This is minor considering that we even no about it. Consider what we dont know about what our government does. Obama has given this, and many other scandals lately another big "ho hum", pass the toast.

Yes and at his own and the libs political peril. His trust # has dropped to 45% within the last month.
It's always a lick and a promise and hope for the best, whatever he is facing as he leads from behind.

He should go to jail.
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Ditto on above sentiment
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He is also claiming this was his motive all along, not that he stumbled on to some program and exposed it. He went into the job with an agenda...

I'm Glad he did it !
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cloaking technologies
surveilance drones
RFID chips
ultra miniature listening devices
ultra miniature video devices
your PC hacked
ALL calls recorded
it's a very long list....
but you get my POINT

you forgot chemtrails

Only in your mind.

-spence

At what cost?

-spence

That's because most of these "scandals" are media driven.

Look at the IRS conspiracy, seems like after all it was just bad management.

-spence

I'd happily let the gubmint snoop in my emails to prevent future terrorist attacks
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I don't know, you have a lot of girl on donkey porn on that IPad of yours.... might not want someone in Langley knowin9 that...

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and you not only commended the individuals for what they did "after" but you excused and defended their actions at the time for various reasons....fundamentals...


The actions of Ayers and others were more violent protest than anything else.

I don't think Ayers was ever even convicted of any crimes.

Oh I do believe that bombs did indeed go off. They didn't kill people because the targets were warned in advance.

that they used small bombs hidden in out of the way locations (I've read a bathroom vent was the most common) with the threat phoned in advance...clearly shows the intent was not to kill as much as make a very dramatic statement.

I'm just curious, but you do realize there was a pretty big counter culture movement in the 1960's don't you?

I think that has to be evaluated in the context of the tension during the Vietnam era where frustrations over inaction or complicity with many issues (like the War and racial inequality) reached a boiling point. Some looked to more violent means to make a statement as peaceful methods didn't appear to be working. That's not to say it was right, but to ignore the societal climate these events were surrounded by would be irresponsible.

The war was the engine behind the radicalization. This wasn't a bunch of communists looking for a cause, their behavior was a by-product.

While Boudin was certainly implicated in the murder, she also didn't pull the trigger and was able to plea bargain a lesser sentence..

He was motivated by the war and racism in college.

Reading Ayers own writing it's clear that the shift to violent protest the war and race issues was precisely because more conventional means weren't getting a response.

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wow....so quick to dismiss....I suspect Snowden would be a whistleblowing National Hero hailed by the left and the media had he made his revelations during the Bush years....probably wouldn't be hiding in fear for his life either....your excuse making, context providing, dismissal and what you deem acceptable for whom and by whom travels down a remarkably consistent one way political/idealogical highway

I'd love to go back and see what you had to say about gubmint "wire tapping" when Bush and Cheney were the ones "reading and listening" :uhuh: ..I'm curious because I think there was quite an uproar then.....in fact, the President had an entirely different view of these things back in 2007...funny how thing change

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized

Pretty clear cut, no wiggle room there as that is the way it was meant to be.

Why should the government be concerned about his having proper papers if he drifts into US airspace? It hasn't been very concerned about 11 million (or much more) aliens drifting into US landspace without proper papers.

What is "interesting" is the effort to go after this guy for exposing the depth of what most of us, and the terrorists, assume--that the government is spying on us, but the effort pales to go after and prevent those "undocumented" folks from residing here and having a far greater effect on our economy, government expenditure, health care and educational facilities, and even our security, than Snowden's little gambit.

That is the rub, there is wiggle room. If the Govt makes a shadow copy of data, but they can only access is via a proper warrant are they really snooping?

-spence

More than quite a few economists believe that the illegal immigrants who participate in the workforce have a net positive impact on the US economy. More growth with lower inflation...

To compare this with a single person breaking the law to expose what are known as lawful programs and doing some pretty serious harm to US interests doesn't make a lot of sense.

-spence

Yes, they are collecting our papers without our knowledge, can get a warrant and now go back and sift through them to fabricate a case. Seems like a 4th ammendment violation to me.
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Yes, to compare all the above, and more than quite a few consequences of illegal immigration on U.S. interests doesn't even begin to calculate the net positive on the U.S. economy.

Snowden, "the single person breaking the law" (which, I believe, every single person among the illegal immigrants did) and who exposed "what are known" as "lawful programs" (which run counter to the Constitution) is obviously a far greater, more than quite far, danger to U.S. interest.

Ergo, bring in the illegals, and fry the poor slob who exposed the State's methods. The treatment the State gives to one as opposed to the other exposes another of its "secret" agendas.

yes

you concocted a new lame(variation) Spencism...congratulations :buds:

sorry, I hadn't read Detbuch....

More than quite a few economists would also tell you that legal citizens who participate in the workforce rather than collecting welfare, foodstamps, disability have an even greater net positive impact on the US economy than illegals who don't pay taxes and send a large portion of their income out of the country and drain our medical system resources, safety nets and live in many cases unaccountable to society .