Ron Paul: ‘We Should Be Thankful’ For Edward Snowden

[ProSense]

Ron Paul: ‘We Should Be Thankful’ For Edward Snowden

Former Republican congressman Ron Paul, a leading civil libertarian, on Monday praised the efforts of Edward Snowden, the source of the National Security Agency leak.

“The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government is doing," Paul said in a Campaign for Liberty statement. “We should be thankful for individuals like Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald who see injustice being carried out by their own government and speak out, despite the risk. They have done a great service to the American people by exposing the truth about what our government is doing in secret.”

Campaign finance records show that an "Edward Snowden" made a pair of $250 contributions to Paul's 2012 presidential campaign, according to the Washington Post.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ron-paul-we-should-be-thankful-for-edward

[graham4anything]

1. well, well, well, how self-serving of him.

[bushisanidiot]

2. And there you go...

snowden is doing the right's work and I guarantee you, he is getting paid to do it.

[still_one]

12. He contributed to rand Paul, and along with greenwald they are all libertarians. This may not

Actually be the mainstream republicans, though I am not sure what that means anymore, but more the tea party elements of that party

Greenwald was falsely associated as being a liberal, but his leanings are definitely libertarian, and his "hatred" of Obama, and I do mean "hatred", not with regard to this latest incident, but his relentless attacking of the president throughout his presidency, including jumping on board with the loonies on Lybia and IRS

Greenwald has a definite bias

[sadbear]

3. But Dr. Paul, how can the rich get richer if the government isn't allowed to protect...

their economic interests at ALL COSTS?

[Raven]

4. I think Mr. Paul is going to be sorry he said this...

just a hunch but I think the facts of the Snowden story are far from clear.

[still_one]

13. Are you kidding me, Paul was against the civil rights act, believes the civil war should not have

been fought to free the slaves. He is a fu@kn racist, who has presented himself as a sheep in wolfs clothing

He won't be sorry, he believes what he says. One thing he is honest, and also an isolationist

[uponit7771]

5. Well there it is then...

[Laelth]

6. I hate agreeing with Ron Paul (though sometimes I do).

Pro, why do you have to be so mean?



-Laelth

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Stopped clock and all that....he got it right.

[LondonReign2]

8. Yay! Guilt by association!

I've also heard he wasn't the friendliest of neighbors...

[bluedigger]

9. Fuck Ron Paul.

Since when did we give a rat's ass what he thinks about anything here at DU?

[uponit7771]

10. +1

[LondonReign2]

15. Wait, +1?

How is it that you want to smear Snowden by associating him with Ron Paul with simultanously not giving a rat's ass about what Ron Paul thinks or does?

[Jamaal510]

11. "Former Republican congressman Ron Paul, a leading civil libertarian"

He sure doesn't seem like a civil libertarian when it comes to voting rights, women's rights, or gay rights. Where's all the outcry from these supposed libertarians over those issues?

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[still_one]

14. Don't forget abortion rights also

[mike_c]

16. rhetorical fallacy-- attempting to discredit the messenger to deflect attention from the message....

Lame. Someone surely pays you for better than that!

[Cha]

18. No, Greenwald does that.. he's his own worst enemy.

[Cha]

17. Yeah, right.. and, all the lying shit that followed.

[LondonReign2]

19. I guess your compensation is based on quantity

not quality

[ProSense]

20. Why,

"I guess your compensation is based on quantity not quality"

...do you think Ron Paul is inferior?

I'm going to have to agree with comment #9.