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"I'm worried that the government might kill him"
Ron Paul on Edward Swowden
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Towards the end of an outspoken 24 hours of media appearances, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) appeared via phone on Fox Business Network with Melissa Francis and made a bold prediction about NSA leaker Edward Snowden's future. "I'm worried about somebody in our government who might kill him, with a cruise missile or a drone missile."

"We live in a bad time where American citizens don't even have rights and that they can be killed," Paul continued. "But the gentleman is trying to tell the truth about what's going on, he is not defecting, there's no signs of that happening. It's a shame we're in an age where people who tell the truth about what the government is doing gets into trouble."

Paul said he "absolutely" feels confident that Snowden has no intention of selling more U.S. secrets to a foreign government as some have feared. "I don't think for a minute that he is a traitor," Paul said. "Everybody is worried about him and what they're going to do and how they will convict him of treason and how they're going to kill him, but what about the people who destroy our Constitution? What kind of penalty are those individuals who take the Second or the Fourth amendment and destroy it? What do we think about people who assassinate American citizens without trials and assume that's the law of the land? That's where our problem is."

When presented with the recent polling figures that show 56% of Americans support the NSA's surveillance practices, Paul suggested those sentiments can be attributed to "propaganda" along the lines of "if you're not for NSA spying on people, then you're un-American, you're unpatriotic, you hate America."

Finally, Paul weighed on his son Senator Rand Paul's vow to challenge the NSA programs in the Supreme Court. While he said he supports "anything like that to call attention to it," he added, "I've not been overly confident about the court system. I emphasize the fact that the most important thing is that the American people wake up and understand what liberty is all about, what the Constitution is about. and if they don't understand that, nothing will change it."

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Published on Jun 11, 2013
Towards the end of an outspoken 24 hours of media appearances, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) appeared via phone on Fox Business Network with Melissa Francis and made a bold prediction about NSA leaker Edward Snowden's future. "I'm worried about somebody in our government who might kill him, with a cruise missile or a drone missile."

"We live in a bad time where American citizens don't even have rights and that they can be killed," Paul continued. "But the gentleman is trying to tell the truth about what's going on, he is not defecting, there's no signs of that happening. It's a shame we're in an age where people who tell the truth about what the government is doing gets into trouble."

Paul said he "absolutely" feels confident that Snowden has no intention of selling more U.S. secrets to a foreign government as some have feared. "I don't think for a minute that he is a traitor," Paul said. "Everybody is worried about him and what they're going to do and how they will convict him of treason and how they're going to kill him, but what about the people who destroy our Constitution? What kind of penalty are those individuals who take the Second or the Fourth amendment and destroy it? What do we think about people who assassinate American citizens without trials and assume that's the law of the land? That's where our problem is."

When presented with the recent polling figures that show 56% of Americans support the NSA's surveillance practices, Paul suggested those sentiments can be attributed to "propaganda" along the lines of "if you're not for NSA spying on people, then you're un-American, you're unpatriotic, you hate America."

Finally, Paul weighed on his son Senator Rand Paul's vow to challenge the NSA programs in the Supreme Court. While he said he supports "anything like that to call attention to it," he added, "I've not been overly confident about the court system. I emphasize the fact that the most important thing is that the American people wake up and understand what liberty is all about, what the Constitution is about. and if they don't understand that, nothing will change it."

Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino responded to Washington's threats with a statement that the Ecuadorian government puts human rights above Washington's interests. Foreign Minister Patino said that Snowden served humanity by revealing that the Washington Stasi was violating the rights of "every citizen in the world." Snowden merely betrayed "some elites that are in power in a certain country," whereas Washington betrayed the entire world.


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A New Beginning Without Washington’s Sanctimonious Mask — Paul Craig Roberts

June 25, 2013 |


A New Beginning Without Washington’s Sanctimonious Mask

Paul Craig Roberts
It is hard to understand the fuss that Washington and its media whores are making over Edward Snowden. We have known for a long time that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying for years without warrants on the communications of Americans and people throughout the world. Photographs of the massive NSA building in Utah built for the purpose of storing the intercepted communications of the world have been published many times.
It is not clear to an ordinary person what Snowden has revealed that William Binney and other whistleblowers have not already revealed. Perhaps the difference is that Snowden has provided documents that prove it, thereby negating Washington’s ability to deny the facts with its usual lies.
Whatever the reason for Washington’s blather, it certainly is not doing the US government any good. Far more interesting than Snowden’s revelations is the decision by governments of other countries to protect a truth-teller from the Stasi in Washington.
Hong Kong kept Snowden’s whereabouts secret so that an amerikan black-op strike or a drone could not be sent to murder him. Hong Kong told Washington that its extradition papers for Snowden were not in order and permitted Snowden to leave for Moscow.
The Chinese government did not interfere with Snowden’s departure.
The Russian government says it has no objection to Snowden having a connecting flight in Moscow.
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino responded to Washington’s threats with a statement that the Ecuadorian government puts human rights above Washington’s interests. Foreign Minister Patino said that Snowden served humanity by revealing that the Washington Stasi was violating the rights of “every citizen in the world.” Snowden merely betrayed “some elites that are in power in a certain country,” whereas Washington betrayed the entire world.
With Hong Kong, China, Russia, Ecuador, and Cuba refusing to obey the Stasi’s orders, Washington is flailing around making a total fool of itself and its media prostitutes.
Secretary of State John Kerry has been issuing warnings hand over fist. He has threatened Russia, China, Ecuador, and every country that aids and abets Snowden’s escape from the Washington Stasi. Those who don’t do Washington’s bidding, Kerry declared, will suffer adverse impacts on their relationship with the US.
What a stupid thing for Kerry to say. Here is a guy who once was for peace but who has been turned by NSA spying on his personal affairs into an asset for the NSA. Try to realize the extraordinary arrogance and hubris in Kerry’s threat that China, Russia, and other countries will suffer bad relations with the US. Kerry is saying that amerika doesn’t have to care whether “the indispensable people” have bad relations with other countries, but those countries have to be concerned if they have bad relations with the “indispensable country.” What an arrogant posture for the US government to present to the world.
Here we have a US Secretary of State lost in delusion along with the rest of Washington. A country that is bankrupt, a country that has allowed its corporations to destroy its economy by moving the best jobs offshore, a country whose future is in the hands of the printing press, a country that after eleven years of combat has been unable to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban is now threatening Russia and China. God save us from the utter fools who comprise our government.
The world is enjoying Washington’s humiliation at the hands of Hong Kong. A mere city state gave Washington the bird. In its official statement, Hong Kong shifted the focus from Snowden to his message and asked the US government to explain its illegal hacking of Hong Kong’s information systems.
China’s state newspaper, The People’s Daily, wrote: “The United States has gone from a model of human rights to an eavesdropper on personal privacy, the manipulator of the centralized power over the international internet, and the mad invader of other countries’ networks. . . The world will remember Edward Snowden. It was his fearlessness that tore off Washington’s sanctimonious mask.”
China’s Global Times, a subsidiary of The People’s Daily, accused Washington of attacking “a young idealist who has exposed the sinister scandals of the US government.” Instead of apologizing “Washington is showing off its muscle by attempting to control the whole situation.”
China’s official Xinhua news agency reported that Snowden’s revelations had placed “Washington in a really awkward situation. They demonstrate that the United States, which has long been trying to play innocent as a victim of cyber attacks, has turned out to be the biggest villain in our age.”
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made it clear that Russia’s sympathy is with Snowden, not with the amerikan Stasi state. Human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said that it was unrealistic to expect the Russian government to violate law to seize a transit passenger who had not entered Russia and was not on Russian soil. RT’s Gayane Chichakyan reported that Washington is doing everything it can to shift attention away from Snowden’s revelations that “show that the US has lied and has been doing the same as they accuse China of doing.”
Ecuador says the traitor is Washington, not Snowden.
The stuck pig squeals from the NSA director–”Edward Snowden has caused irreversible damage to US”–are matched by the obliging squeals from members of the House and Senate, themselves victims of the NSA spying, as was the Director of the CIA who was forced to resign because of a love affair. The NSA is in position to blackmail everyone in the House and Senate, in the White House itself, in all the corporations, the universities, the media, every organization at home and abroad, who has anything to hide. You can tell who is being blackmailed by the intensity of the squeals, such as those of Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) and Mike Rogers (R, MI). With any luck, a patriot will leak what the NSA has on Feinstein and Rogers, neither of whom could possibly scrape any lower before the NSA.
The gangster government in Washington that has everything to hide is now in NSA’s hands and will follow orders. The pretense that amerika is a democracy responsible to the people has been exposed. The US is run by and for the NSA. Congress and the White House are NSA puppets.
Let’s quit calling the NSA the National Security Agency. Clearly, NSA is a threat to the security of every person in the entire world. Let’s call the NSA what it really is–the National Stasi Agency, the largest collection of Gestapo in human history. You can take for granted that every media whore, every government prostitute, every ignorant flag-waver who declares Snowden to be a traitor is either brainwashed or blackmailed. They are the protectors of NSA tyranny. They are our enemies.
The world has been growing increasingly sick of Washington for a long time. The bullying, the constant stream of lies, the gratuitous wars and destruction have destroyed the image hyped by Washington of the US as a “light unto the world.” The world sees the US as a plague upon the world.
Following Snowden’s revelations, Germany’s most important magazine, Der Spiegal, had the headline: “Obama’s Soft Totalitarianism: Europe Must Protect Itself From America.” The first sentence of the article asks: “Is Barack Obama a friend? Revelations about his government’s vast spying program call that into doubt. The European Union must protect the Continent from America’s reach for omnipotence.”
Der Spiegal continues: “We are being watched. All the time and everywhere. And it is the Americans who are doing the watching. On Tuesday, the head of the largest and most all-encompassing surveillance system ever invented is coming for a visit. If Barack Obama is our friend then we really don’t need to be terribly worried about our enemies.”
There is little doubt that German Interior Minister Hans Peter Friedrich has lost his secrets to NSA spies. Friedrich rushed to NSA’s defense, declaring: ”that’s not how you treat friends.” As Der Spiegal made clear, the minister was not referring “to the fact that our trans-Atlantic friends were spying on us. Rather, he meant the criticism of that spying. Friedrich’s reaction is only paradoxical on the surface and can be explained by looking at geopolitical realities. The US is, for the time being, the only global power–and as such it is the only truly sovereign state in existence. All others are dependent–either as enemies or allies. And because most prefer to be allies, politicians–Germany’s included–prefer to grin and bear it.”
It is extraordinary that the most important publication in Germany has acknowledged that the German government is Washington’s puppet state.
Der Spiegel says: “German citizens should be able to expect that their government will protect them from spying by foreign governments. But the German interior minister says instead: ‘We are grateful for the excellent cooperation with US secret services.’ Friedrich didn’t even try to cover up his own incompetence on the surveillance issue. ‘Everything we know about it, we have learned from the media,’ he said. The head of the country’s domestic intelligence agency, Hans-Georg Maassen, was not any more enlightened. ‘I didn’t know anything about it,’ he said. And Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was also apparently in the dark. ‘These reports are extremely unsettling,’ she said. With all due respect: These are the people who are supposed to be protecting our rights? If it wasn’t so frightening, it would be absurd.”
For those moronic amerikans who say, “I’m not doing anything wrong, I don’t care if they spy,” Der Spiegal writes that a “monitored human being is not a free one.” We have reached the point where we “free americans” have to learn from our German puppets that we are not free.
Here, read it for yourself: http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-906250.html
Present day Germany is a new country, flushed of its past by war and defeat. Russia is also a new country that has emerged from the ashes of an unrealistic ideology. Hope always resides with those countries that have most experienced evil in government. If Germany were to throw off its amerikan overlord and depart NATO, amerikan power in Europe would collapse. If Germany and Russia were to unite in defense of truth and human rights, Europe and the world would have a new beginning.
A new beginning is desperately needed. Chris Floyd explains precisely what is going on, which is something you will never hear from the presstitutes. Read it while you still can: http://www.globalresearch.ca/follow-...ations/5340132
There would be hope if Americans could throw off their brainwashing, follow the lead of Debra Sweet and others, and stand up for Edward Snowden and against the Stasi State. http://www.opednews.com/populum/prin...nt=a&id=167695

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Published on Jun 24, 2013
Ecuador's foreign minister has confirmed that Ecuador is processing an asylum request from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

Speaking during a visit to Vietnam, Ricardo Patino defended the decision to consider Mr Snowden's request.

Mr Patino said his country places human rights "above any other interest that may be discussed or any other pressure it may be subjected to"

Rand Paul: 'Snowden hasn't lied to anyone'


Published on Jun 25, 2013
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Sunday that history will decide how Edward Snowden is viewed in the public eye. For more CNN videos, check out http://www.cnn.com/video/


I get a kick out of the interviewer so wide eyed and careful with her questions..Puppet Princes at work for the NWO!!!!

MSM Failed Journalism In Snowden NSA Saga

June 26, 2013



RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports on prime examples of how the mainstream American media has been doing anything BUT covering the biggest privacy leak story of our lifetime, and why TV networks have been working so hard to avoid the real news and change the subject.

Edward Snowden Is NOT The Real Issue



Published on Jun 23, 2013
The media's trial of Edward Snowden's character in the court of public opinion is IRRELEVANT and distracts from the real issue at hand—the documents he leaked to the media show, beyond any doubt, that the US government is spying on its own citizens millions of times daily... without our consent, and in clear violation of the law and the Constitution we are founded upon.

Edward Snowden's girlfriend, his intentions, his geopolitical flight for safety... all very interesting side stories, but NOT the main story. Don't get distracted!!


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Prosecuting Glenn Greenwald

Cliff Kincaid — June 25, 2013










Some in the media are aghast that NBC’s David Gregory asked Glenn Greenwald a perfectly reasonable question on Meet the Press: “To the extent that you have aided and abetted [NSA leaker Edward] Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn’t you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?”

The question is entirely legitimate. Section 798 of the Espionage Act absolutely prohibits the publication of classified information in the area of communications intelligence. That would include programs of the National Security Agency (NSA).
Snowden has been charged with violating the Espionage Act, as well as theft of government property (18 U.S.C. 641) and the unauthorized communication of national defense information (18 U.S.C. 793 d).
Do David Gregory’s critics believe reporters should be above the law and allowed to make it easier for the enemy to kill us? Why is such a question beyond the pale?
In addition to his role as Edward Snowden’s mouthpiece and handler, we have disclosed Greenwald’s speaking appearances at Communist conferences co-sponsored by the International Socialist Organization. This is not an ordinary journalist. He maintains friendly relations with international organizations that want to destroy the American way of life.
Commenting on Gregory’s question and Greenwald’s rebuttal, the left-wing Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) said, “To Greenwald, the assumption is that he is involved in a crime—aiding and abetting—and the question Gregory is pondering is the extent of his wrongdoing.”
But since Snowden has been charged with espionage, the assumption is not unreasonable.
And the disclosures will continue. Greenwald confirmed to Amy Goodman on Monday that Snowden has given him a number of leaked documents and that “my only priority at the moment is going through these documents, vetting them and continuing to report on them. And there are lots of other stories coming.”
Some of these are undoubtedly stolen and classified documents.
On the Fox News Sunday show, former Vice President Dick Cheney said that he favored investigating whether The New York Times should have been prosecuted when its reporter James Risen revealed details of a highly classified counter-terrorism programin clear violation of Section 798 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code on espionage. This NSA program had monitored al-Qaeda communications.
The law applies to whoever “knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information…”
“I was not advocating prosecuting Risen,” Cheney said. “I did think that The New York Times violated the law because there is indeed a provision that says it is a felony offense to publish information about communications intelligence in the United States. It’s never been enforced. But it’s a felony calling for a sentence of 10 years to do that.”
He added, “I urged that we ought to investigate. And either the law is the law or it isn’t. It’s never been enforced. Nobody had the nerve to actually go after The New York Times. But it’s on the books.”
Gabriel Schoenfeld had published a thought-provoking article in Commentary, “Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act?,” which argued that “the press can and should be held to account for publishing military secrets in wartime.”
AIM had argued at the time that New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and his editors should be held accountable for revealing the existence of a highly classified NSA terrorist surveillance program. “Bring forward the indictments,” we said.
Sulzberger had said that he and the editors “made the decision” to publish the classified information and that, “in the battles between civil liberties on the one hand and national security on the other, civil liberties won.”
We countered: “Whose civil liberties are you talking about? Certainly not the civil liberties of those Americans who are possible victims of a terrorist attack carried out by the terrorists who are under surveillance. So whose civil liberties are you protecting in this case by going public and alerting our enemies as to what we’re doing?”
To be honest and consistent, such questions need to be asked in the present situation. In the case of Snowden and Greenwald, how many Americans will die as a result of the leaks? This is the question that needs to be asked. Gregory actually didn’t go far enough in his grilling of Greenwald.
At the time of the controversy over the Times’ NSA disclosures, Dr. John Eastman, a professor of law, had delivered congressional testimony which was titled, “Does the First Amendment’s Freedom of the Press Clause Place the Institutional Media Above the Law of Classified Secrets?” He said, “The constitutionality of protecting intelligence gathering and other operational military secrets in time of war is therefore beyond dispute, and the institutional press is no more permitted to ignore the legal restrictions imposed by the Espionage Act on the publication and other dissemination of such classified information than are ordinary citizens.”
He also put it this way: “It is illegal to publish classified information about our intelligence-gathering efforts and capabilities.”

This is the law.
In a Washington Post article, “Yes, publishing NSA secrets is a crime,” Marc A. Thiessen, a member of the White House senior staff under President George W. Bush, noted that “Greenwald’s crime is violating 18 USC § 798, which makes it a criminal act to publish classified information revealing government cryptography or communications intelligence.”
The facts are not in dispute, except among Greenwald and his groupies. So why is it somehow inappropriate to ask about Greenwald’s involvement in criminal activity?
But when the question was discussed on the Fox New Channel show “The Five,” panelist Eric Bolling said, “It’s absolutely insane…We need more Glenn Greenwalds, we don’t need fewer of them…Bottom line, David Gregory is carrying water for the Obama administration by asking that question.”
Such comments earned Bolling laudatory headlines and coverage at the far-left Huffington Post.
But it appears that Bolling’s disgust for a rival network, NBC, led him to say things that he didn’t really mean. He should rethink and recant. The facts are not on his side.
More Glenn Greenwalds? As we have noted, Greenwald is a journalist who proudly accepted an award named after Soviet agent I.F. Stone. During one of his appearances at a Communist conference, he said the weakening of America is a “very good thing.”
Rather than attack Gregory and defend Greenwald, the following questions ought to be directed to the Obama Administration: Will you prosecute Greenwald? If not, why not?

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