{"id":36489,"date":"2013-07-02T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36489"},"modified":"2013-07-02T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:38:07","slug":"hollywood-supports-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36489","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood supports Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"

David sends us a link to Just Foreign Policy<\/a> which reprints a letter from the usual suspects who support Eddie Snowden, the NSA contractor who is in the process of releasing state secrets to encourage fellow traveler, Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, to accept Snowden as a refugee from American Justice;<\/p>\n

We have seen this drama play out several times before under the Obama administration. The administration has charged more than twice as many whistle-blowers under the Espionage Act than all previous presidents combined. These have included Thomas Drake who also exposed wrongdoing at the NSA, and most notably Private Bradley Manning, who stands accused of providing Wikileaks with information that revealed U.S. war crimes, U.S. meddling in other countries\u2019 affairs, and other grave and troubling misdeeds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As could have been the case with Assange, Manning\u2019s treatment since his arrest shows that Snowden could be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment if he were taken into U.S. custody. There is also a grave danger that Snowden would have difficulty in receiving a fair trial in the U.S. \u2013 a point he reportedly has made in his petition for asylum. Manning\u2019s case also shows that Snowden\u2019s constitutional right to a \u201cspeedy\u201d trial might also not be secure. These are all serious examples of political persecution against Manning that may await Snowden if he becomes a U.S. prisoner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The list of signatories includes a bunch of the regular anti-American, commie-hugging know-nothings from Hollywood including Oliver Stone, Michael Moore, Danny Glover, John Cusack, Roseanne Barr and bunch of other B-list people of whom I’ve never heard. In the mix are political gadflies like Joe Wilson (wife of Valerie Plame), Noam Chomsky, Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans, Ann Wright, Tom Hayden (Mrs. Jane Fonda) and Daniel Ellsburg.<\/p>\n

Yeah, so if I had an intention of ever supporting Snowden, this letter pretty much satisfies that urge. I also understand that if this had happened before last year’s election, none of these luminaries would have made a peep over the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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