Snowdon is a dummy

I hadn't even thought about the above, but the author is right, Snowden hasn't talked about the Russian surveillance when he has been on TV. It don't take a genius to know that he probably rightfully fears he would be put in prison since that seems to be a practice in Russia. Moreover, I just find it suspicious that the first person he reaches out to is a Kremlin loyalist.

FIRST AMENDMENT

AMENDMENT I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917

In United States v. Motion Picture Film (1917), a federal court upheld the government's seizure of a film called The Spirit of '76 on the grounds that its depiction of cruelty on the part of British soldiers during the American Revolution would undermine support for America's wartime ally. The producer, Robert Goldstein, a Jew of German origins, was prosecuted under Title XI of the Act, and received a ten-year sentence plus a fine of $5000. The sentence was commuted on appeal to three years.[24]

In May 1918, sedition charges were laid under the Espionage Act against Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society president "Judge" Joseph Rutherford and seven other Watch Tower directors and officers over statements made in the society's book, The Finished Mystery, published a year earlier. The book had claimed that patriotism was a delusion and murder and the officers were charged with attempting to cause insubordination, disloyalty, refusal of duty in the armed forces and obstructing the recruitment and enlistment service of the U.S. while it was at war.

On June 21 seven of the directors, including Rutherford, were sentenced to the maximum 20 years' imprisonment for each of four charges, to be served concurrently. They served nine months in the Atlanta Penitentiary before being released on bail at the order of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. In April 1919 an appeal court ruled they had not had the "intemperate and impartial trial of which they were entitled" and reversed their conviction.[32] In May 1920 the government announced that all charges had been dropped.[33]

A year after the Act's passage, Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party presidential candidate in 1904, 1908, and 1912 was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for making a speech that "obstructed recruiting". He ran for president again in 1920 from prison. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921 when he had served nearly five years.[23]

Be sure you have your tinfoil hat on properly

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Be sure you have your tinfoil hat on properly

LOL yes we never have placed people in prison for daring to express anti-government and anti war opinions.

It never had happen now have it..............?????????????

An if it had happen for some strange reason it can never happen again even those we now have secret courts and strange things like no fly lists where people are placed on it for no know reasons and so far you have no ability to challenge being on the list in the courts.

An of course the government is not spending tens of billions a year to spy not on foreign governments but to do massive spying on US citizens.

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it

Winston Churchill

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I don't think he needed much convincing, other, smaller countries were afraid of the repercussions

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Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it

Winston Churchill

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You mean the part of history that says you ought not to spy on other countries????

Wake up!