Snowden PROVES NO ONE should be Above the Law!!11!!1

[Octafish]

And here's why, from a Big Enemy of Leakers Everywhere:



"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."

If you believe that, then, I guess things today in the USA are hunkey-dorey.

[randome]

1. Even the Wikileaks lawyers don't want Snowden now.

That should tell you where Snowden falls on the scale of trustworthiness. You know if his claims had a smidgen of evidence behind them, Wikileaks would scoop him up in an instant.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023101737

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[Octafish]

10. Why do you repeat that canard? Three important NSA whistleblowers back up Snowden.

William Binney. Russell Tice. Thomas Drake.

http://www.democracynow.org/topics/nsa/2

[randome]

12. Bush Era whistleblowers. At least one was dinged for stealing documents.

And the program they wanted stopped was canceled. Granted, they had to go through hell to get it stopped and that should not have happened.

But I'm not going to believe that the NSA is 'spying on everybody' without some evidence.

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[NightWatcher]

2. He thinks he is above the law. Lies and steals but thinks he can run away

He obtained the job for the sole reason of committing a crime, but thinks he should be able to hide out in Equador where he can't be touched.

[Octafish]

11. Do you think the president should be above the law?

Do you think the president should be able to use his power to avoid justice?

I don't.

Look at what Poppy Bush did during Iran-Contra.

That was treason that went unpunished. And it opened up a lot of doors to the traitors ever since.

[DontTreadOnMe]

3. Is that George Bush Sr. sitting 3 people down from Nixon?

The guy on the far left seems just a little too happy.

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6. I think I see Sean Connery and Spencer Tracy in there, too

[hootinholler]

8. It could well be

Nixon was a protege of Prescott and mentored poppy.

I was wondering what the photo's context is myself.

[Octafish]

13. Yes, it is.

I believe behind Nixon, his face partially obscured by a hat, are the eyebrows of Jim Wright (D-Texas), once the Speaker of the House.

[hootinholler]

14. The guy behind Nixon looks like one of the operation 40 dudes. n/t

[msongs]

4. the solution is to make your crimes legal, then they are all okey doke nt

[PoliticAverse]

5. "What in the name of God have we come to?"

The trial of Daniel Ellsberg...

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ellsberg/ellsbergaccount.html

[Rex]

7. MEGA FUCKING SIGH.

IF ONLY that was true bro. The worst of them get a library built in their name and the least of them get military prison with no actual court date.

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. If the government has no right to record to who and when we make phone calls or send E-mails

and - if would be tyrants like Snowden would try to block the government from keeping track of all our Internet activity by informing the public - Then in time - the government's ability to control the population and put a stop to those who would defy authority, talk back to power and cause trouble will be abridged - Then we will find ourselves living in country where authority is at the mercy of the people instead of the people at the mercy of authority. Who on earth would want to live in country like that?

As Jefferson put it, "When the people are afraid of authority - we have freedom. When authority is afraid of the people - we have tyranny." (or it was something like that- I'm really not sure)