Anybody who thinks this NSA prism BS is acceptable, needs to have some sense beaten into them with a sledgehammer. I'd love to be the one to do it too.
Ah yes, respond to the possible infringement of privacy rights from a million miles with threats of violence on people who disagree. What an intelligent response.
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I don't think anyone has to come up with a smear campaign. He's doing a pretty good job of looking like a bit of a conspiracy freak already.
Most interesting thing he said was voting for a third party but hoping Obama would shut down the programs he was worried about. Then his growing disenchantment when Obama did the opposite.
Therein lies the difference between working in the role of an opposition critic versus actually being responsible for the safety of the American public. Obama has worn both hats now and its not easy laying off the tools available to him in his current job.
The debate is healthy but the American public will always err on the side of surrendering some privacy to aid in the defeat of an external threat.
Mr. Snowden is going to spend a lot of years in jail. Unless he defects to Cuba.
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And you know this how? I'd venture that you have no clue what he had access to and what his job entailed.
Putting that guy in jail would put 'Murica right next to Cuba (note for valo-I don't mean geographically).
Apparently he has checked out of his hotel in Hong Kong. Some government member in Iceland offered to help him. That would be like icing on the cake.
Two of our pirate party parliament members and founders of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (which was in part founded to support and give extraordinary freedoms and rights to whistle blowers and reporters.)
They are already looking at the asylum papers for him, but as of yet he has not contacted anyone here in Iceland.
My friend Smári at the pirate party was contacted by fox news on the phone, quite hilariously this was his reply to them:
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A FOX person called me earlier, interview request. Thought I didn't know of them. I said, "I'm aware of you. I watch you with abject horror"
Also a bit more about the interview they wanted to do:
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Her opening line was "hello, is there anybody there that speaks english?"
I was going to go on, but then on the last minute they a) showed technical ineptitude of a degree I've never seen in a TV channel, and b) said they'd edit a 5 minute interview down to 30 seconds, which is something - given Fox's bias towards idiocy and the nature of the issue, I could not consent to.
She: "Could you stay on the phone so we can relay the questions to you that way?"
Me: "Then I'm going to have to hold the phone to my head during the interview - do you want that? Won't it look a bit odd?"
She: "He'll ask you a question, then you put it down and answer the question, and then pick it back up again, okay?"
Me: "Wait, what?"
... thinking about all the times today I've done TV interviews with, like, bidirectional audio with the host plus a producer or team of producers speaking in my ear as well.
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I don't know where else to put this. Anyways, there's some weird things coming out about the death of Michael Hastings.
From Wikipedia:
Hastings became a vocal critic of the surveillance state during the investigation of reporters by the US Department of Justice in 2013, referring to the restrictions on the freedom of the press by the Obama administration as a "war" on journalism.[5] His last story, "Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans", was published by BuzzFeed on June 7.[6] Hastings died in a fiery high-speed automobile crash on June 18, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
Anyways, apparently his body was cremated, and his family never asked it and some other things worth discussing!
So we are supposed to believe Obama or someone in the government had him killed? Okey dokey.
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So we are supposed to believe Obama or someone in the government had him killed? Okey dokey.
I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the US government has had people killed on American soil. This one in particular is certainly a stretch, but in general I would bet they've done it before.
I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the US government has had people killed on American soil. This one in particular is certainly a stretch, but in general I would bet they've done it before.
They killed 3000 or so of them in 2001.
You're probably right about it having happened at times, but this particular instance just screams conspiracy theory to me.
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I don't know where else to put this. Anyways, there's some weird things coming out about the death of Michael Hastings.
From Wikipedia:
Hastings became a vocal critic of the surveillance state during the investigation of reporters by the US Department of Justice in 2013, referring to the restrictions on the freedom of the press by the Obama administration as a "war" on journalism.[5] His last story, "Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans", was published by BuzzFeed on June 7.[6] Hastings died in a fiery high-speed automobile crash on June 18, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
Anyways, apparently his body was cremated, and his family never asked it and some other things worth discussing!
The circumstances of Michael Hastings death is peculiar indeed. Have you watched this presser yet?
