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Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden

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Re: Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden

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Post by nikcub »

You need to have been convicted to receive a pardon, the petition should be not to prosecute.

Despite the semantics, this is a good idea to let the administration know that a lot of citizens do not consider what Snowden did to be a crime and support his actions.

Re: Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden

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Post by fnordfnordfnord »

beloch wrote: post #2

It may as well read: Sign here to admit you are treasonous terrorist-loving scum who should be under constant surveillance by the NSA for the protection of all fine, upstanding, compliant 'merican citizens.

Fine with me. Hell, petition to award Snowden the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal.

Re: Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden

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Post by alan_cx »

beloch wrote: post #2

It may as well read: Sign here to admit you are treasonous terrorist-loving scum who should be under constant surveillance by the NSA for the protection of all fine, upstanding, compliant 'merican citizens.

You already potentially are. That is why the US gov spies industrially on its own people.

Re: Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden

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Post by dpearson »

nikcub wrote: post #23

You need to have been convicted to receive a pardon, the petition should be not to prosecute. Despite the semantics, this is a good idea to let the administration know that a lot of citizens do not consider what Snowden did to be a crime and support his actions.

Nixon received a "full, free, and absolute pardon" from Gerald Ford [0], despite not actually having even stood trial, let alone having been convicted.

[0]: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26847.html

Re: Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden

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Post by dak1 »

nikcub wrote: post #23

You need to have been convicted to receive a pardon, the petition should be not to prosecute. Despite the semantics, this is a good idea to let the administration know that a lot of citizens do not consider what Snowden did to be a crime and support his actions.

In 1866, the Supreme Court ruled in Ex parte Garland that the pardon power "extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment."
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