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Hopefully he'll stop hogging the frontpage then. Just like nobody remembers Julian Assange anymore.
Do you want to live in a total-surveillance society?
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They'll probably make him a felon, won't they? (Can you vote for felons in the US?)
A convicted spy (he's charged with espionage) can't get elected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...
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Unless something happens to ramp up the fear again, like some kind of attack.
I highly recommend the book "Crisis and Leviathan", by Robert Higgs. Everyone knows that government has continually grown in size and scope during this past century, but how and why has it done so? Is this growth inherent in the nature of government or because of some greater social needs, or are there other causes? In Crisis and Leviathan, Robert Higgs shows that the main reason lies in government’s responses to nat…
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They'll probably make him a felon, won't they? (Can you vote for felons in the US?)
Yup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States#...
The Washington Post sat on the Collateral Murder video. [1,2] The New York Times sat on the warrantless wiretapping scandal at the request of the White House. [3] CBS sat on the Abu Ghraib torture scandal at the request of the Pentagon. [4] What is the Washington Post not telling us? [1] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/15617022129 [2] http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/wapo_denies_allegation_it_sat.... [3] http://fai…
The Washington Post is a fucking joke. And then they wonder why people are abandoning print media in droves and turning to the internet for news.
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He's there because he's a coward with no backbone. If he is so sure of his innocence, he'd be facing the court instead of propping up a government with terrible human rights record.
Do you really believe the court system works to determine innocence? Do you believe he would be guaranteed a fair trial? Do you think Manning got a fair trial? Do you believe that by taking refuge in Russia he's "propping up" their government? How? Do you believe that giving up a 6-figure salary and life to expose violations of the US constitution is an act of a coward? Are these opinions harbored by real people, or…
This one is pretty much obvious. It is a massive PR win for Putin, looking at uninformed online comments such as yours.
I believe he's paid much more by Russian intelligence services for all the secrets he has "exported".
The last question doesn't even deserve a response. If you're this closeminded, you shouldn't argue on the Internet at all.
But what has really changed? The NSA is under pressure from the public, less so from the intelligence and defense communities. If anything Snowden has caused those areas of government to close ranks even tighter. There's nothing a leader wants more than a highly visible enemy to unite his or her people. There are orders of magnitude more people who hate General Alexander now than there were two years ago. But his own…