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Green Party candidate Jill Stein has been making the social media rounds as of late, spreading her alternative message in the face of a historically unpopular general election.If Sanders were to leave the race, Stein would no doubt gain a decent number of frustrated voters, and putting her platform in the public eye will only increase this number.
Stein appeared on popular social media network NowThis to discuss among many things, what she thinks should happen to Edward Snowden. Snowden gained international notoriety in 2013 for his release of a mass of classified NSA information to the public. As a result of his whistle-blowing efforts, Snowden fled the U.S. in order to escape arrest.
Opinions on Snowden vary. While many consider him to be a traitor and criminal for disclosing the classified information, others feel that his disclosure was his patriotic duty, opening America’s eyes to the gross surveillance performed by the NSA every day. Other still feel that Snowden’s acts were both heroic and reckless as he released information wantonly without reviewing it all beforehand to determine whether it could provide a risk to national security.
In this interview with NowThis, Stein weighs in on where she stands on the Snowden conversation.
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Read more and video @: Jill Stein: “Edward Snowden Should Be Brought Home With A Hero’s Welcome”
I could not agree more! :applaud:applaud Snowden should be given a heroes welcome along with Chelsea Manning (and she should be free)! [/FONT][/COLOR]
Read more and video @: Jill Stein: “Edward Snowden Should Be Brought Home With A Hero’s Welcome”
I could not agree more! :applaud:applaud Snowden should be given a heroes welcome along with Chelsea Manning (and she should be free)! [/FONT][/COLOR]
Read more and video @: Jill Stein: “Edward Snowden Should Be Brought Home With A Hero’s Welcome”
I could not agree more! :applaud:applaud Snowden should be given a heroes welcome along with Chelsea Manning (and she should be free)! [/FONT][/COLOR]
I agree with Stein about Snowden.
Read more and video @: Jill Stein: “Edward Snowden Should Be Brought Home With A Hero’s Welcome”
I could not agree more! :applaud:applaud Snowden should be given a heroes welcome along with Chelsea Manning (and she should be free)! [/FONT][/COLOR]
Well, if it gets him back here so we can arrest his ass, I have no problem pretending we're having a parade for him.
So you do not think people should be responsible for the laws they break? Go ahead, break the law, as long as I agree with the cause you are doing it for...
Bring him home and arrest him for breaking the diverse laws he broke sounds better.
So you do not think people should be responsible for the laws they break? Go ahead, break the law, as long as I agree with the cause you are doing it for...
Except for the fact that since Snowden's release the courts have ruled that the NSA's program was actually illegal and now the American people as a whole are aware of the situation. Politicians have responded and change has occurred. Exposing crimes is not a crime.
Are you suggesting Thoreau didn't bravely flee to Russia to avoid prosecution after refusing to pay taxes over his principled opposition to slavery and the Mexican-American War?
Upon reflection, that may be accurate!
It depends on how it is done actually.
Last I checked the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Our elected officials violated the law by violating the 4th amendment by spying on Americans. If anyone should be arrested it should be those asswipes.Not the guy who revealed that those asswipes were breaking the law.
Oh, there is no doubt that we must look into government's activities and punish, where punishment is due.
But there is also no doubt, that Snowden published much more information on many topics that had and could not have any baring whatever on the Constitutional right of US citizens. There is no doubt of the severity of the damage he wrought at many levels. This damage was totally unwarranted and should be visibly punished. He is a much worse criminal than Madoff, who only destroyed a couple of Billions Dollars.
Oh, there is no doubt that we must look into government's activities and punish, where punishment is due.
But there is also no doubt, that Snowden published much more information on many topics that had and could not have any baring whatever on the Constitutional right of US citizens. There is no doubt of the severity of the damage he wrought at many levels. This damage was totally unwarranted and should be visibly punished. He is a much worse criminal than Madoff, who only destroyed a couple of Billions Dollars.
Which will not ever happen.Those ass wipes who spied on Americans will never be punished.Nor will the ass wipes who ordered the other ass wipes to spy on Americans will be punished.
It seems most or all the alleged damage comes claims made by those who support government spying or by the government itself.Basically it amounts to he ratted on us so we'll try to smear him.
As far as I am concerned the most egregious offense is the blatant disregard of the constitution by those in our government. Our government whining about the alleged damage Snowden did is like the arsonist stitching on a kid for throwing a pebble at a window because that kid called the authorities on the arsonist.
Snowden published exactly zero information of any kind. He gave the information to a very small group of investigative journalists who then sifted through everything and released only what was relevant and safe to do so.
There is no safer or more responsible way to expose illegal government activities.
Except for the fact that since Snowden's release the courts have ruled that the NSA's program was actually illegal and now the American people as a whole are aware of the situation. Politicians have responded and change has occurred. Exposing crimes is not a crime.
Exposing a crime is not a crime. The METHOD one goes about exposing it, however, CAN be.
True that he gave it to reporters for them to publish. So what? The problem was that the stuff he gave them was full of material that had nothing to do with "illegal government activities". Instead it had to do with legitimate instruments of security. Giving that part of the leak to the reporters was definitely criminal and has done quite a bit of damage.
Now it might be true that the activities should be understood by all. That they were not, is not really a case for publishing incidence of foreign spying, though. And in fact I was unsurprised by any of that side of the information package. I would have been horrified, had the spies not been spying. That the information harmed us is more to do, with a dishonesty of a number of our allies governments over the years, than with anything illegitimate that the US was doing. But the harm is very real.
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