Snowdon is a dummy

]I'm responding to something you wrote, Walter.

I thought you realized the forum is open to everyone...and that questions or comments directed to one member sometimes elicit responses from others.

It certainly might not take a long time and the U.S.A. will have annected all or at least most other countries in the world.

I was explicitly questioning oralloy

oralloy wrote:

Are we talking about an innocent person avoiding a show trial, or a guilty person avoiding justice?

Please inform yourself about the reasons why someone leaves a country and seeks asylum in another.

Frank Apisa wrote:

]I'm responding to something you wrote, Walter.

I was explicitly questioning oralloy

Frank Apisa wrote:

I thought you realized the forum is open to everyone...and that questions or comments directed to one member sometimes elicit responses from others.

We've joined A2K the same day.
Perhaps I'm to conservative and/or senile that I remember responses to similar posts like "I'm not xxx but ..."

Sorry.

He sought asylum because he did not want to be brought back to the United States to face trial on these charges...that have indeed been brought.

You and I are in perfect like-mindedness, regarding Edward Snowden, Frank Apisa. Snowden reminds me of a sneaky rodent, who having stolen precious Federal Classified documents , scurries away quickly, after having done his foul deed, hoping not to be caught.

For Another Million, I’ll Show You the Back Door We Put in Your Router
Up to $1 million, monthly. That’s the consulting fee former National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander charges banks interested in his advice on cyber security. A small price to pay for the expertise of a guy who has arguably done more than anyone to undermine cyber security in the United States. Said Alexander, who retired from the NSA back in March amid fallout over the agency’s controversial surveillance practices, “It would be devastating if one of our major banks was hit, because they’re so interconnected.”

In any event, he did steal US documents and fled the country. What part of that is not true? If he only spoke out against the US and was seeking asylum to avoid being arrested for it, I could get the political asylum part, but he went further and actually stole unknown amounts of information sensitive to security (not all of it related to invasion of privacy matters) to not only the US, but other countries as well. Those were illegal acts of which he must be held accountable. He has said, he wouldn't mind being held at Gitmo, let him prove it by turning himself in and facing a trial for his actions.

Who is holding the NSA accountable, rev?

There's a reason why whistle blowers are often considered heroes: because at great risk to themselves, they help the common man know about malpractice that would otherwise remain hidden forever...

So you guys do your homework: prosecute the NSA,

reign them in, defund them, reform your laws and delete all these records you stole from us.

Then you can have the moral high ground.

Until then, Snowden is morally superior to the US who claims a right to prosecute him.

You behave as a dictatorship trying to silence their dissenters.

Usato

The U.S.A. now wants to make their sovereign tasks at German airports - the time to ask Germany to allow this could not be more unfavourable. (Beside that: that is regulated in German federal and EU-law.)