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JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 04:05 AM Jun 2013

Hong Kong doesn't need us all that much. There is a whole world

out there, and if they harbor Snowden, they can just wait a few years and the next president is going to have to promise to not prosecute Snowden. Some DUers don't yet realize just how much Americans are going to thank Snowden and condemn the many "leaders" who support the surveillance. The surveillance is wrong not Snowden's letting us know about it. Snowden has not given away any information that we should not have or that that the world should not have. I can't imagine that he has violated the spirit of the law since the program itself violates our Constitution and is, therefore, in my opinion unconstitutional. It chills speech, assembly and makes a "free" press impossible. The program is unlawful, not Snowden.

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