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Edward Snowden Issues Statement From Moscow, Slams Obama
Via Wikileaks:
Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful.
On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions.
This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me.
For decades the United States of America have been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.
In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be.
I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so many.
Edward Joseph Snowden
Monday 1st July 2013
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We should all make a pledge to go on holiday in whichever country grants this guy asylum.
Edward Snowden's theme song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JCehDOy54
The constitution and the bill of rights are no longer in effect. Nobody is playing by those rules anymore. The only document we as americans are therefore bound to is the Declaration of Independence, and this is from the current government.
Make no mistake, the patriot act and subsequent acts, the current state of surveillance, dollar degradation, and tyranical rule has eliminated all of the constituion, and bill of rights, we have no rights, look at the GB/AG election, look at NSA, look at the WARs, look at your rights to privacy and freedom.
The declaration of independence is now what we adhere to, they cannot destroy that because it is an ideal.
Teach your children that document above all else.
historically, labor has fared quite well in clashes with the establishment, yuppie scum doesn't like their noses bloodied, if the other side doesn't want to honor the constitution, we don't have to either !!!
and remember the first rule of warfare - do not start a war and not win it
I think the NSA facility in Utah should be reconfigured to become The Snowden University for Constitutional Studies.
If you're going to play the legalist game, prepare to get called out when you're wrong, because details matter. The Declaration was never a legally binding document in any sense in any capacity anywhere at anytime whatsoever. It did not, does not, and never will have any legal status or authority in American law courts, common, civil, or criminal.
Specifically it does not confer any rights or grant any protections or afford any benefits to anyone.
If you play the legalist game, you are going to lose. They have a highly trained, loyal, dedicated, intelligent army of lawyers, judges, and professors to rubber-stamp their every whim. Like the heretics who challenged Church doctrines and expected to prevail, you fundamentally misunderstand the nature, purpose, and intent of the institutions in question. Law exists to promote the illusion of its rule, of rationality and fairness in justice, and the existence of justice in the first place. It is an elaborate fantasy constructed for the emotional security of the masses. In all its superficial complexity, it obscures the fact that it is a trivial confidence game which cannot even hope to comprehend or address social, political, or economic reality. It is a fiction born of deceit and malice, nothing but a simulacrum, not of justice, but of raw state power, its purpose being to convince the public that the opposite is true, that there is a "rule of law" and not merely "rule by force" (using the proxy of law).
"The declaration of independence is now what we adhere to, they cannot destroy that because it is an ideal."
Now you are speaking my language. Quite right.
You got the CONVICTION part right, Snow-job!!!
Convicted and life in prison...where you can obsess about surveillance
the rest of your sorry ass days
and finally realize you are a one trick pony.
without balance in your intellectual analysis and intellectual honesty.
Republi-Kunt strikes again!
Trollololololo
He is not very good at it. I'm used to high quality trolls here at ZH, that one stands out as stinky.
Are you welfare benefits not enoght? Must you really troll here for enough money to go a Colt 45? No don't mean the gun brother.
You got the CONVICTION part right, Snow-job!!!
Convicted and life in prison...where you can obsess about surveillance
the rest of your sorry ass days
and finally realize you are a one trick pony.
without balance in your intellectual analysis and intellectual honesty.
Whatsa matter SNOW-JOB no one wants you anymore?
Getting nervous snow-job?
Snowden is welcome at my home any time.
Plant? Or just blockhead?
No kidding Serfdom does rein in this country.
Buck, that's "reign," dear.
I saw the more of what you did there.
So did I - but it's late and Senior Jose Cuervo is a long visitng guest in most ZH households at this hour.
Your humor would have otherwise garnered triple-digits greens.
On Snowden - if the USA was really the great stanchion of freedom, liberty, and democracy that it claims to be, Snowden would be seeking asylum here, instead............
And to those assholes in .gov that want to abandon the Constitution, fine, your job description is in there - you abandon it, you lose your job. Bring it FUCKING ON.
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."----V
Who is Edward Snowden?
A true American hero.
+1
That Charles Nelson's comment goes over so many heads is disturbing
Fellow Space Monkeys: His Name is....Edward Snowden.
Project mayhem members get names when they die.
If we are to have one hero that makes it out alive, I say let it be Snowden.
"That Charles Nelson's comment goes over so many heads is disturbing"
Well, to be fair - he didn't actually "go Gault".
Galt.
Exactly Big, thank you
Word
I'm no fortune teller but what I see in Snowdens future should this Criminal Federal Illegitimate Government get its hands on him is the following:
NDAA / Partriot Act
Indefinite Detention
No trial
No lawer
Torture
Torture
Rendition
Some more torture
Death, but not before more heavy doses of torture
WARNING: The National Security Agency is likely recording and storing this communication as part of its unlawful spying programs on all Americans … and people worldwide. The people who created the NSA spying program say that this communication – and any responses – can and will be used against the American people at any time in the future should folks in government decide to go after us for political reasons. And private information in digital communications may be given to big companies by the government.
Geez, I was thinking we might as well all move to Turkey, but it appears Turkey is coming to us.
Read Turkish native Sibel Edmond's book to fully appreciate this.
See Helluva Engineer's comment below
Ignatius - re. Turkey coming to us
Just want to point out - Turks are in the street, fighting this.
Yes, but I just finished reading Classified Woman and Sibel -- who was a Turkish translator at the FBI -- couldn't go back to Turkey for fear of arrest and torture and all the blatant corruption she uncovered, etc..
Go Turks!
A globalized mono-culture is an easier police state to police.
"Who is Edward Snowden?" - I think he meant this in reference to John Galt
Yes, but the responses to the question have become an interesting Rorschach test.
I see the White House intern down-arrower is back. Hey, little dipshit. Go fuck yourself.
If nothing else, this has certainly served to draw attention away from the recent and more serious embarrassment surrounding the arrest of the Al Qaeda "Syrian rebels" picked up in Turkey who had sarin gas believed to have been provided by the US. The UN investigation concluded that it was meant to be used against Syrian civilian populations and was going to be blamed on Assad in an attempt to engender support for the current adventure they are all hot for. This opens to interpretation the question of who used it before. Obama isn't saying much about the crossing of red lines these days. Stupid to get caught. How incompetant are they to put their trust in that ignorant bunch rather than using their own people to deliver the load into the town? Now we are exposed as the ones who crossed our own "red line." We have murdered innocents in public and we are exposed for the war criminals we are. After they finish laughing, if the world doesn't eventually band together to take us down like a rabid dog I will be very surprised.
How do we know it's sarin? Cause we at the CIA still have the receipts and FedEx confirmation.
thank you, I didnt get it.
"The people who created the NSA spying program say that this communication – and any responses – can and will be used against the American people at any time in the future should folks in government decide to go after us for political reasons."
I for one am looking Forward to defending my right to speak my mind whenever & wherever I choose.
Fuck em.
+1
DaddyO
I will not be cowed by those coming on here saying "Everything you say is being recorded and will be used against you!"
The implication is clear. To those I say, go away and never darken my door with your weasly cowardice again.
Not directed at you DaddyO...but I've had it with these half-assed sissies.
We live in a state with people like these:
http://you-just-need-to-shut-up.com/15-wacky-florida-mug-shots/
Frankly I'm not worried about the Gubermint anymore... ;)
(Warning: you cannot unsee these images. And we have a serial downvoting troglodyte on the board.)
I'd like to think they're all non-Native transplants...but I know different ;-)
Fuck the gubmint. After enough years of posting, you realize it doesn't matter what you say anymore. You're fucked already.
Kinda liberating!
Speech is still free but the people are not.
well I'll be a monkey's uncle!
I think that is why Edward Snowden rings true with many of us!
He has stood up and let himself be counted amongst those who have had enough.
And he has pledged his sacred honor and his fortunes so to speak...
He has completely neutralized the Obummer Admin without firing a single shot, his has been the cannon of truth!
Many like me would like to cling to the notion we can bring about revolution in the hearts and minds of our sphere of influence and triumph at the ballot box or statehouse or Whitehouse.
That may be a trivial notion but one to cling too nonetheless.
Are we prepared to go all the way, that is, to arms, time will tell but let's exhaust the peaceful means through deliberation.
I will not be intimidated by the threat of "them" watching either, fear is not real, just imagined.
DaddyO
Peacefully is always preferable, I think most are doing a good job of not jumping into the ponzi of "animal spirits" as presented...make them hold and sell out to each other going down...for example.
The ballot box (no matter what conspiracy nuts say) is the best place once minds are informed as to whats at stake for all.
But we reserve the right...always.
Democracy is, two wolves and a lamb voting for what they'll have for lunch. A republic is, a well armed lamb contesting the vote ;-)
Ben had some great quotes
But last time around I was not sure if I should have voted for the gun controlling, socialized medicine promoting Democrat or for the gun controlling, socilaized medicine promoting Republican. Such hard choices!
Recently did some paperwork in regards to some mundane, peripheral interaction with a local police department. Was somewhat surprised, amused and angered at the extent of the questions regarding internet usage such as sites logged into, user names, accounts. etc. I am greatly moved more and more by the saying "A brave man dies once ... a coward dies every day". I am NO keyboard commando and will vociferously speak and act in as righteous a manner as possible ... as Mr. Snowden appears to have done/be doing. Gerard McHale
Preach it brother
X2
- I for one am looking Forward to defending my right to speak my mind whenever & wherever I choose.
Yes newmwm is so fearless of government retribution, that he needs to come here and tell us all, the the government's 9/11 version is the true story - 2 planes did take down 3 skyscrapers. And then, beat his cheat about what a tuff-guy he is!?!
What a wanker.
Ahhh yes, my original troll.
Where's your pal Clashfan, surely you two can divert yet another thread off topic. I ask the assembled audience, why would that be?
Shut-up and tell me your 9/11 .gov sponsored fairy tale again. I need a good laugh.
You tell me, you hopeless fucking psy-op, were the planes hijacked or not?
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Well?
Dov Zakheim 9 11 Mastermind - YouTube
9/11 Jewish-Mossad False Flag Archive: Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College: Mossad, Jewish neo-cons, and Israelis orchestrated 9/11 attack
Educate yourself and then you can tell me.
Maybe you're just one of those people in denial, afraid to educate yourself?
I understand ... the implications are heavy.
So what you're saying is, you can't put into your own words who hijacked the planes, you're pawning it off on Sabrosky, is he Jewish?
Come on, who hijacked the planes (you're now admitting they were in fact hijacked, not auto piloted as you nuts said before, right?)...I mean, who was actualy up there slitting throats before they smashed into the buildings and killed themselves.
Come on junior, you can do it ;-)
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Not Mossad auto piloted...strike one.
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We'll continue this tomorrow morning, junior...be ready.
Dude, just admit that Bigfoot and his magic UFO brought down the towers after a tête-à-tête with Dick Cheney at a DC area Marriot. Anything less proves you're working for Mossad.
"Come on, who hijacked the planes (you're now admitting they were in fact hijacked, not auto piloted as you nuts said before, right?)...I mean, who was actualy up there slitting throats before they smashed into the buildings and killed themselves."
No one. Prove the relevant planes even existed, and were in the air in US airspace on that day. I'd love to see the evidence. Not that it matters. Aircraft of those kind cannot physically do what you claim they did. Do you wish to put forth an alternative version of fluid and aero dynamics, gravity, and solid body physics?
Even auto-pilot systems cannot defy physics.
As if your cryptostatism wasn't enough, this is RICH!
"Who hijacked the planes?" Hahahahahaha. You've definitely read the playbook.
Isn't there a videotape of airplanes flying into the towers? Or is that fake too? I guess the phone calls that the passengers made from those planes describing what was happening before they died were also fake. Just like the pilots and passengers on those fake planes. It's all fake. No planes existed. No pilots, flight crews or passengers died.
Why can't you people just grow the fuck up? I have no problem witht he fact the the government through incompetence and malice allowed that shit to happen and then tried to cover their dumb asses up; but when you nut jobs try to run around and claim that there weren't any airplanes that hit the towers you just look silly.
The old stupid nmewmnuts is back with us. Re. you're pawning it off on Sabrosky, is he Jewish?
Let's break it down for you. obviously, you're too scared to go to the link. Probably your handlers forbid it, like the armed forces anounced their banning parts of the Guardian. Anyhow, if you are not affraid to read the title of the link, --> 9/11 Jewish-Mossad False Flag Archive: Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College: Mossad, Jewish neo-cons, and Israelis orchestrated 9/11 attack
You will see --> Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College: <-- colon
Following the colon is Dr. Sabrosky's, (who was the director of studies at the US Army War College, I think that's at West Point) famous allegation which he describes in the linked article. Yes, I believe he is Jewish. He's also an American. So what?
Funny you know so much about this that you can run around making your bogus, status-quo friendly pronouncements on the subject and you've never even hear of Dr. Alan Sabrosky???
The US Army War College is in Carlisle, PA. I already knew that but it took no more than five seconds to confirm. Lack of rigor does your argument little good. If you can't locate the Army War College how can I believe that you have unwrapped the deepest questions regarding September 11?
It's not lack of rigor ... it's the lack of bearing of the actual location on the topic at hand.
You are a real wack-job crockett. I don't know how you manage to sleep with yourself.
Let's all say it together know, just so we know what we're talking about - 2 planes taking down 3 towers. Feel free to have a revelation at any time.
It's the litmus test. Take it.
lol...so Mossad can kill thousands of people but can't kill Sabrosky?
You're an idiot.
I know I'm going to get down-arrowed for this, but here goes: If we could prove that 9/11 was an inside job, would it change anything about the future of the American people and their relationship with they, the rogue and criminal US government?
No! They would just spin and bury the story and run more DWTS reruns while rounding up anyone discussing it.
It would be good to know, but it is just more stink from the shit that is they, the rogue and criminal US government.
We need to stay focused on their provable and obvious crimes of theft, murder and treason. The truth about 9/11 will come out when they're gone and the files are available to us.
It's now about preparing and prorities, so focus on eliminating the shit not the stink.
The Four Rs: Rejection; Revolution; Retribution; Restoration
If we could convince the other 99% US population that 911 was an inside job then your four R's would actually be achieveable.
10% could get the r-r-r-r's rolling
I agree, but my point is that time, effort and resources are better spent waking the sheeple up to what is being done to them not on what may or may not have happened on 9/11. Plus the guillotine operates better on clear evidence of theft, treason and murder, like "making war against them," violating their oaths and the Constitution.
It is hard enough getting people to understand the criminality of their actions against us, the American people, and the Constitution. Getting them to understand the finer points of flight paths, thermite, etc. is next to impossible.
Additionally, 9/11 only encompasses some of the criminals and their crimes that are related to that event. Holding them accountable to their crimes against us, the American people, and the Constitution encompasses all of them and all of their crimes.
i.e. I don't know what, say, Pelosi or Boehner's criminal connection are, if any, to 9/11, but I have them dead to rights on treason and oath violations.
The Four Rs
Rejection: Quit paying, quit obeying.
Revolution: Be prepared.
Retribution: Is there really any place for these sociopaths and criminals in a restored civil and Constitutional society?!
Restoration: Restore the Constitutional republic.
There's a 50' billboard going up in Time Square this summer and will be there through the anniversary of 9/11.
It focuses on the 3rd tower, WTC7 coming down that day. The group is 'ReThink911.org', I believe.
The truth is always relevant.
he's a white machurian canidate to get you stupid niggas like you, to pop your head out of your holes, so big sis can come by ans pick you like fruit.
he's a white machurian canidate to get you stupid like you, to pop your head out of your holes, so big sis can come by ans pick you like fruit.
You know what the manchurian candidate's mission was right...?
yeah, to pose as a real niggas while faking the real niggas.
snowden... yeah. real niggas would've just shot the information all over the internets like a come-shot heards across the world; then wents off grids.
instead... niggas gett'n laid in hong-kong, chineses pussy, and in russia, russian pussy... that's the best pussy in the world for doing nothing except possing as a do gooder, to find the reals undergrounds do gooders.
FYI, every knows the NSA has direct taps into the phone system; my comment goes to zerohedge, and the nsa at the same time.
Lemon, why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?
I'd suggest russian roulette. (Like Snowden)
Go easy on Lemon...
He reminds us how lucky we are that we didn't sire an adolescent that was in dire need of a burlap bag, a rock and a river.
Solitaire is too challenging for the putz
yeah, to pose as a real n while faking the real n
Not sure you got it quite right, may want to revisit it.
Chinese pussy? Russian pussy? What do you have against pussy? Sounds like you're not getting any.
... born in the USA....BORN IN THE USA....
One of the most important people of our time
charless nelson aa pizza eating uninformed ding bat
Maybe ~ But you kno he ate a pizza dancin' to the beat...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHKCHvpYq_8
Dumpster - you are ignorant beyond your years. Who is Ayn Rand?
For me, the first, obvious problem with the holy, on-high Ayn Rand is the endless growth idea.
As in, we need more steel plants, more and faster rail lines. If only the useless obstructors would get out of the way, we could get busy.
Sometimes - less is more.
Disclosure - Yes, I did go Galt.
You're courtesy ZH tickets for Hollywood Squares have been revoked! Now fuck off
Baryshnikov without rhythm?
You are what you is-->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB8aERkYKiE
I am Snowden!
No, I am Snowden.
No, I am Wallace. I mean Snowden.
I am the Walrus.
We are all Edward Snowden.
Thats where I was going.
Who is Edward Snowden?
He's become a member of the John Galt society.
He's Waldo
This is turning into so much white noise.
I think not. There is signal here.
full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. we are just gently being lulled to sleep
Think what you want.
The fire that will burn it all awaits but a single match.
Thanks to any sh*t posting here voted for this. No Bush sucked too and is a NWO liar like Jeb & Poppy but vote third party or stay home versus voting for POS Allah.
Next round, we'll get Bush vs. Clinton, both of which come from the same royal bloodline, literally. Disgusting.
Yup. Jeb & Rubio versus Hillary & a hispanic or black man. Disgusting.
Hang them all. End of story.
Anyone notice Benghazi left the radar?
Not mine.
Nor the administrations IRS targeting, nor Holder lying on search warrant applications, nor Sharyl Atkisson's computer getting hacked, nor hundreds of Mexicans dead from Fast & Furious or the young & gullible who are about to get monetarily slammed on January 1 when they are FORCED to buy corporate health insurance or be FINED by the IRS/government.
Anyone notice that if you aren't willing to send your own PRIVATE troops all over the world to OVERRIDE the Hitlery crew, you're wanking yourself to death for nothing over Benghazi?
We already know they're crooked.
We already know they plan murders.
They already show they kill their own on a whim.
what the fuck are you trying to prove.
Benghazi isn't ignored it's OVER. You fucking missed the bus.
To be a space-monkey you have to make your flight first.
I'd like to see a push for a Write-In Candidate named: None of the Above.
I love Snowden...got that, Emperor Alexander?
comedy film starring Richard Pryor and John Candy
I am hesitant to pick at this more than once today. But there is someone out there lulling you to sleep. He has a fake cool name and ski's in the andes mountains and eats chilean seabass off of hot girls asses. He is a complete and utter fraud, a fabrication, and a fucking pussy ass bitch to boot. And yet you sit here and throw stones at people sitting in prison and in an airport in Moscow dealing with the scariest kind of people because they believe in freedom's that you enjoy and yet are too fucking clueless to see the irony that as you admonish hollywood you fucking sure seem to adore your hollywoodesqe Simon Black and his hollywood bullshit.
What the fuck man?
He has a fake cool name and ski's in the andes mountains and eats chilean seabass off of hot girls asses.
You talking about me again?
You do know that 'Cajoles Me' is an anagram of your name don't you?
No James, he said the guy has a cool name :)
Ah, apologies for the confusion. Oh well, back to my chilean seabass.
i believe his card reads;
international man of mistory_simon noir
dang fonz-I've never seen you get your panties in such a wad. all I'm saying is that I have the feeling that this is not the turning point that everyone is hoping for. also those hot chicks are european and my love for SB endures.
Oh... THAT dude...
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'Mi Slack Knob'
Otto what frustrates the hell out of me is....and I am guilty of it as much as anyone....is that we may all just sit here and call BS on everything until we are sitting in fema camps because we never once took a chance and believed in something. As I was saying below....I have never seen empirical evidence of Jesus, but I have family that can't imagine the thought that he does not exist. They need to believe he exists.
Maybe I need to believe this guy exists. That is probably it. Sorry if it came out towards you. Many feel the way you do.
What concerns me is that they may have created Snowden as a way of letting the world in on their little secret that they have eyes on everyone and we are at an inflection point, and our fear or disbelief lets a great opportunity escape.
More importantly, if you have actual proof that Simon eats chilean seabass off a hookers ass, please send it. I am impressionable and my loyalties could be changed if there is truth in that.
no proof- but his web site photo gives the impression that he would do shit like that. kind of like it's nice to think the Dos Equis Most Interesting Man In the World exists. I'm starting to think it will all end with a whimper- not a bang.
I don't always eat Chilean seabass, but when I do, I prefer to eat it off a hooker's ass.
if Sinatra could eat bacon and eggs off a hooker's tits- why not sea bass off of one's ass?
It's a valid question, I wish we had the resources to explore it.
Just because it smells like fish doesn't mean it is ;-)
I'm literally on my back crying laughing kicking my legs in the air.
This is one of the most beautifully twisted groups of people I've ever known.
There's no reason to send any of us to the camp. We're here, already.
Like, why go outside in the fresh sunny air to yell at people, sweat, get agitated, have to poop in a smelly Porta-Loo and get that bluepurple crap all over me, get bitten by a bunch of mosquitoes, ticks and fleas and get coughed upon by a tubercular drug addict, when I can sit here with a cold soda and an ice cream bar laughing my ass off....
We are already in our very own camps, folks....
and furthermore, I gave no one permission for me to be born !!! Bitchez !!!
I do that every once in a while...just to see how many hookers are trolling ZH...five so far ;-)
What did the blind man say when he walked into the fish market? "Hellllooooooooooooo ladies".....
Sounds like a typical Sunday brunch for Simon Black.
What is the Bang vs. Whimper over/under these days? Wish Elliott or Orwell where here to handicap.
"I want to believe." —Fox Mulder
Nine seasons of The X-Files, and I don't think there's a single person who honestly knows what the hell was going on with that show. But like you and Mulder, I want to believe. Just this once.
I prefer-"Trust no one" from Mulder.
That's my default setting, but too much of it leads me to ditch ZH for a month to focus my energies on rum and Coke instead.
The best post I have read on ZH was one of yours which described the financial situation as 10 dudes with their dicks tied to each other with string. I still laugh at the image. They all have to move together or OUCH.
Maybe Edward Snowden is using this image but in the world of Intelligence. He's either pulling a couple of the dudes/dudettes....(Merkel) in a certain direction or he has found a sharp pair of scissors to cut the string.
I believe Edward Joseph Snowden.
***ski's in the andes mountains and eats chilean seabass off of hot girls asses***
Damn, So that's why the asses of Chilean whores smell like fish!!
aka simon black:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-4zfsy6rsM
CQ CQ CQ DX
White noise? Someone leave the New Kids playing on the iPod again?
Sounds right.
Sums things up quite nicely and concisely!
No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be.
Way to call down the fucking thunder, Mr. Snowden. For a geeky looking guy, you've got brass balls.
Does he have a speach writer? If so, s/he is a good one.
Happiness is giving an uptick that boosts a post such as MM's from 29 to 43.
According to reports, he took his job solely to investigate this shit. He obviously spent a lot of time thinking about these issues to even consider such an act. Chances are he's been polishing his thoughts in comment sections for a decade now. If this statement had been laced with a bunch of profanity and the word "bitchez," it could have been written by any number of people on ZH. And that's a compliment to both Mr. Snowden and ZH.
Looks like Gen. Alexander gave you a downie there MM.
Either Snowden has some patriotic handlers who are fed up with the whole CIA/NSA meme or He is a very insightful, intelligent reincarnation of Madison or Jefferson with balls of steel.
DaddyO
And all the politicians and MSM talking heads calling for his 'return to face justice' can kiss my angry white ass...
In this instance, what exactly does "justice" mean? From my perspective, this man has alerted his fellow citizens that quiety, secretly, the administration of this government is violating everyone's 4th Amendment rights. We are routinely being searched. We have submitted to the metal detector, the full body scanner, and the grope. It would appear that the majority, those who seek to stifle Snowden, want him delivered to the Lort High Inquisitor to atone for his sins. I seek a higher form of justice in which we all gather around Edward to celebrate the Snowden Monument, a new concrete monolith in Utah, a building that was intended to be named Big Brother, but has since been filled floor to ceiling with concrete.
To emphasize just how grotesque this surveillance state is, the other day I heard a report that some staffers at NSA were having a howling good time listening to phone sex calls between active duty soldiers and their lady-friends back home. I like to imagine one of those soldiers, well-versed in the use of an M-16 finding one of those NSA voyuers. That my friends, would be justice.