Snowdon is a dummy

Snowden and Bergdahl are two of the sanest, most important Americans of our times.

They should be feted and praised. And awarded medals and accolades.

They tell the truth.

Hey, bird brain, Snowden was already charged with espionage. That means the penalty is death. You and some others speak of a "fair trial."

How dumb are you?

Until the government promises to drop that charge and offer Snowden a 'fair trial,' there's no guarantee he'll get one. capish? Naw, you're brain dead.

Sorry, I was at work before, remember what that is? Anyways, I'm stoned now, let me try again.

Here is my argument in a simplistic since that even a retired man that can no longer find weed from anywhere except the government can probably understand.

How is Snowden a risk to society by not putting in jail if he no longer has any national security clearance?

If tabs are kept on him for the rest of his life, say for example (safe to assume that the NSA would already be doing this with or without consent). How is he a risk to the safety of you or I? Same with Chelsea Manning? Who does it protect by locking them up?

And maybe you can clear up what you do not understand about my "sending a message" statements for yourself by answering this question, Frank. What message does it send locking someone up who is fighting against government overreach to protect the freedoms of the American public? How does it look to God when the nation that will fight to free a people from an unruly dictator is willing to imprison a person who poses no threat to the common man?

Go ahead, tell me again what is it that is so incoherent about what I'm saying or sit down because you know in your heart you hate your stance (punch line is you're probably already sitting down).

May God Bless You All

Snowden and Bergdahl are two of the sanest, most important Americans of our times.

They should be feted and praised. And awarded medals and accolades. They tell the truth.

...the damage has already been done!

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The damage done was the fault of the US government, not Snowden for revealing it, by allowing the intelligent community to run wild and do massive spying for the sole reason that with a large budget it was possible to do massive spying.

The results are that the world no longer trust any US firm either software or hardware not to be in bed with NSA

The fact that the US tries to prevent terrorism does not make the US responsible for Snowden betraying us to the terrorists.

if anyone wishes to have a trade war with us, we should be able to accommodate them.

If anyone wishes to have a trade war with us, we should be able to accommodate them.

A statement from the office of the Public Prosecutor General said that “extensive preliminary investigation has uncovered sufficient factual indication that unknown members of U.S. intelligence services” had tapped Merkel’s phone.

Sources close to the office are quoted today: "There are indications that beyond pure electronic surveillance, there were American agents in Berlin for the purpose of spying on the chancellor." (Officially, the US-government said that the sole nature of the surveillance was electronic and impersonal.)

Walter, you have no idea how good it makes me feel that there is absolutely useless, pathetically obvious, political posturing done in other countries besides here in the United States...and that people in those countries are as anxious to buy into it as some here do.

Well, if you think our criminal laws to be absolutely useless, pathetically obvious, political posturing and that people here are anxious to buy into it, well, I have a different opinion.

But, Frank, what's about you and your fair trial? Useless? Pathetical?

Frank Apisa wrote:

Walter, you have no idea how good it makes me feel that there is absolutely useless, pathetically obvious, political posturing done in other countries besides here in the United States...and that people in those countries are as anxious to buy into it as some here do.

Well, if you think our criminal laws to be absolutely useless, pathetically obvious, political posturing and that people here are anxious to buy into it, well, I have a different opinion.

But, Frank, what's about you and your fair trial? Useless? Pathetical?

But...

...in my opinion, the "investigation" mentioned in your post is a political stunt...made by politicians hoping to dupe a naive public.

Frank Apisa wrote:

But...

...in my opinion, the "investigation" mentioned in your post is a political stunt...made by politicians hoping to dupe a naive public.

The public prosecutors in Germany are civil servants.
The Public Prosecutor General ... well, is a kind of polical civil servant, since the Federal Minister of Justice proposes the Attorney General with the approval of the Bundesrat to the President of Germany for appointment.
But he like other prosecutors has to act according to the Courts Constitution Act.

Yeah...our guys do, too!

Edward Snowden joined Google, Reddit, Mozilla and a host of other tech firms and privacy groups Thursday to call for a strengthening of privacy rights online.

The Reset the Net campaign was launched June 5, a year after Snowden’s revelations about the scale of the US government’s surveillance programs were first published in the Guardian and the Washington Post.

“One year ago, we learned that the internet is under surveillance, and our activities are being monitored to create permanent records of our private lives – no matter how innocent or ordinary those lives might be,” Snowden said in a statement released by his attorney.

“Today, we can begin the work of effectively shutting down the collection of our online communications, even if the US Congress fails to do the same."

Snowden said adopting encryption was “the first effective step that everyone can take to end mass surveillance … don’t ask for your privacy. Take it back.”

"It's been a year since Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the US government's abusive spying programs. In that time Congress and the Obama Administration have failed to protect our rights," said Tiffiniy Cheng, spokesperson for Fight for the Future, which co-ordinated the campaign.

"Now, they've got a rebellion on their hands as tech companies and internet users work together to directly intervene in mass surveillance and block the NSA and its kind from the web."

Google announced its support for the campaign earlier this week and also published the source code for an “end-to-end” encryption service for its Chrome browser. The company has asked developers to help it work on the project, which it hopes will offer a simple way for people to encrypt their communications and other data online.