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In reply to the discussion: If it's not about Snowden, then why are there so many breathless posts about his asylum status? [View all]Lasher
(27,597 posts)9. Well we could be discussing Orly Taitz instead.
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If it's not about Snowden, then why are there so many breathless posts about his asylum status? [View all]
apples and oranges
Jul 2013
OP
Russ Tice claims that the NSA wiretapped Obama, Supreme court justices, leaders of
think
Jul 2013
#5
Russ Tice blew the lid off the Bush administration illegal spying and that's your response?
think
Jul 2013
#12
Yes it is....but my talk isn't writing accusation checks that my ass cannot cover!
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#13
I haven't hitched my wagon to anybody....I don't even own a wagon as a matter of fact.
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#53
No....credibility is not the heaviest weighted in a court room....physical evidence is.
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#67
So now we've switched from needing proof to even if it's true it is futile to resist spying?
think
Jul 2013
#92
Your sunny demeanor aside, you don't have any proof to support your beliefs.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jul 2013
#102
Your HTML degree confers knowledge to you about when the NSA is lying?
DisgustipatedinCA
Jul 2013
#106
next logical step in this irrational primal scream. the plane was downed
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#25
Do you really think that Snowden getting Asylum in any country in South America worries the CIA?
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#11
Capture him if he throws himself to the floor as soon as they burst into the door to get him.
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#16
And the more he leaks about international spying, the farther he will cross the line
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#66
Great point. Until I read this I was thinking the USA wouldn't bother with a hit
flamingdem
Jul 2013
#71
there IS no privacy....there NEVER will be with an Internet! Period...people need to get that into
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#28
So say the authoritarian's then why does every site have a privacy policy?
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Jul 2013
#32
those laws were written before this new fangled invention called the Internet...
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#33
No its not....I am trying to prove to you that the Internet saves everything!
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2013
#50
I refuse to discuss with an ignorant person who pretends to know what he does not
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Jul 2013
#61
You don't have it do you? Therefore it's ipso-facto PRIVATE, non-PUBLIC, Personal Information NPPI
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Jul 2013
#110
I started a thread about how we should start rectifying this by repealing the Patriot Act
arely staircase
Jul 2013
#44
Ratfucking doesn't focus on solutions...it creates discontent so voter turnout is lower.
msanthrope
Jul 2013
#87
You're just now noticing that the USA has the most powerful military and intelligence
apples and oranges
Jul 2013
#128
Why do so many: straddle the fence, or believe Zimmerman shoud be given the benefit of the doubt;
TheMadMonk
Jul 2013
#64
Snowden's become a symbol of resistance to the authoritarian surveillance state. I say roll with it.
backscatter712
Jul 2013
#122