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In reply to the discussion: If it's not about Snowden, then why are there so many breathless posts about his asylum status? [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)62. They are tied together.
Don't you care why the NSA want to hunt him down and kill him? Kill, you say? Yes, that is the end game. Yes, let's really poke into the NSA like they have poked into us.
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If it's not about Snowden, then why are there so many breathless posts about his asylum status? [View all]
apples and oranges
Jul 2013
OP
Russ Tice claims that the NSA wiretapped Obama, Supreme court justices, leaders of
think
Jul 2013
#5
Russ Tice blew the lid off the Bush administration illegal spying and that's your response?
think
Jul 2013
#12
Yes it is....but my talk isn't writing accusation checks that my ass cannot cover!
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#13
I haven't hitched my wagon to anybody....I don't even own a wagon as a matter of fact.
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#53
No....credibility is not the heaviest weighted in a court room....physical evidence is.
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#67
So now we've switched from needing proof to even if it's true it is futile to resist spying?
think
Jul 2013
#92
Your sunny demeanor aside, you don't have any proof to support your beliefs.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jul 2013
#102
Your HTML degree confers knowledge to you about when the NSA is lying?
DisgustipatedinCA
Jul 2013
#106
next logical step in this irrational primal scream. the plane was downed
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#25
Do you really think that Snowden getting Asylum in any country in South America worries the CIA?
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#11
Capture him if he throws himself to the floor as soon as they burst into the door to get him.
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#16
And the more he leaks about international spying, the farther he will cross the line
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#66
Great point. Until I read this I was thinking the USA wouldn't bother with a hit
flamingdem
Jul 2013
#71
there IS no privacy....there NEVER will be with an Internet! Period...people need to get that into
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#28
So say the authoritarian's then why does every site have a privacy policy?
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Jul 2013
#32
those laws were written before this new fangled invention called the Internet...
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#33
No its not....I am trying to prove to you that the Internet saves everything!
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#50
I refuse to discuss with an ignorant person who pretends to know what he does not
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Jul 2013
#61
You don't have it do you? Therefore it's ipso-facto PRIVATE, non-PUBLIC, Personal Information NPPI
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Jul 2013
#110
I started a thread about how we should start rectifying this by repealing the Patriot Act
arely staircase
Jul 2013
#44
Ratfucking doesn't focus on solutions...it creates discontent so voter turnout is lower.
msanthrope
Jul 2013
#87
You're just now noticing that the USA has the most powerful military and intelligence
apples and oranges
Jul 2013
#128
Why do so many: straddle the fence, or believe Zimmerman shoud be given the benefit of the doubt;
TheMadMonk
Jul 2013
#64
Snowden's become a symbol of resistance to the authoritarian surveillance state. I say roll with it.
backscatter712
Jul 2013
#122