Re: Message from Moscow

Posted by Patrick Reilly on Nov 01, 2013; 4:33pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Message-from-Moscow-tp7584171p7584174.html

Snowden's supervisors should be arrested for dereliction of duty. Oh, but I forgot, anarcho-capitalism teaches that government employees, including military officers, can never be competent, effective, or preferable to profit-driven and self-interested contractors. Even in matters of espionage.

BTW, I will make clear that some of what Snowden revealed about privacy violationsl was reasonable to whistle blow on and these disclosures will benefit the public.

---- Pat

On Friday, November 1, 2013, glen wrote:

On 11/01/2013 06:04 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:

A high ranking German politician has spoken with Edward Snowden in Moscow. Here is the letter he brought back:
http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-32616.pdf

"I am confident that with the support of the international community, the government of the United States will abandon this harmful behavior."

This is one of: rhetorical, hopelessly optimistic, or disingenuous ... or perhaps some combination of the three.  I got this in the mail this morning:

  Secretary of State Kerry: Reinstate Edward Snowden’s passport!
  http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8711

But I'm having trouble imagining that he'll ever get his passport back or be treated as anything other than a traitor here.


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