Snowdon is a dummy

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This isn't the Third Reich, Red China, Russia, North Korea or Cuba.

First of all, I am only saying that I don't like brutal dictatorships. Surely I'm allowed to make that judgement.

I should also point out that I'm not really telling the "country" of Cuba, since most of the country isn't allowed to participate in the government anyway. I am telling the dictators who rule Cuba.

This isn't the Third Reich, Red China, Russia, North Korea or Cuba.

Snowden's case has become a sore point both at home and abroad for the US. Douglas Paal, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the revelations "make it impossible for any countries to make concessions to the United States for the time being, because we look like big cyber offenders."

This isn't the Third Reich, Red China, Russia, North Korea or Cuba.

Do you know of anyone in your country who has lost their freedoms?

A government that is doing massive and secret spying on all it citizens is a bad thing in my and many others opinions and not a good indication for our future freedoms.

Berlin police believe that this message, projected onto the wall of the US Embassy in Berlin on Sunday night, could be a violation of laws against insulting representatives of foreign states.

Berlin police are pursuing an investigation of a light artist for projecting the phrase "United Stasi of America" onto the side of the US Embassy in Berlin. But can he really be prosecuted?

It was meant to be a publicity stunt -- a political prank aimed at voicing displeasure over vast US Internet surveillance and spying activities. But Oliver Bienkowski, the light artist who projected the words "United Stasi of America" on the US Embassy late on Sunday night now finds himself in hot water with the Berlin police, with authorities having opened an investigation.

Officially, a Berlin spokesman confirmed on Friday, Bienkowski is suspected of having violated a law against "insulting organs and representatives of foreign countries." So far, however, the artist has not yet even been approached by the authorities, though the Berlin police said he would soon be invited in for questioning.
The projection, which included an image of Internet activist and hacker icon Kim Schmitz, aka "Kim Dotcom," took place at around 1 a.m. on Sunday night and lasted for a mere 30 seconds before police guarding the embassy asked him to move on. "Stasi" is a reference to the infamous East German Ministry for State Security, which managed a vast network of spies and informants in communist times -- but which also persecuted the state's political opponents.

Bienkowski told SPIEGEL ONLINE that his goal was to "do things that people will see and try to get them to think." Specifically, he wanted to voice criticism of US web surveillance, the vast scope of which was revealed recently by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Bienkowski even spent €5,000 out of his own pocket to finance the costs of the guerilla light projection.
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As I said, Izzy...if you want to think that the UK does not get anything out of the deal...and still does the US's bidding...then they are patsies.

LOL! It's very difficult to get blood from a stone. You have answered to the best of your ability and the powers that be can ask no more.

Frank Apisa wrote:

As I said, Izzy...if you want to think that the UK does not get anything out of the deal...and still does the US's bidding...then they are patsies.

Exactly, which is why we should close the American air bases down without delay, including those on Ascension Island and Diego Garcia.