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In reply to the discussion: Guardian's former Moscow correspondent on "Russia’s treatment of its own whistle-blowers" (updated) [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)30. He'll come back when the horror that is Rand Paul is elected. Expect confetti and swooning...
Along with throwing old people out of hospitals. The newly sanctified NSA will hire him to shoot all leakers in the balls. The KGB is giving him lessons on how to properly aim a gun where the bullets will do the most good.
His image will be engraved on the Ron Paul gold coins issued by each state when the Federal Reserve and all amendments after the first two are repealed. Heck, the Constitution will be repealed as well, we'll go back to the Articles of the Confederacy.
After our new theocracy is accepted in the name of freedom and liberty for some, the 1% will pull back the curtains and rename the former USA as the Koch Kingdom. Get ready to bow to the nice men with the guns you've seen at the Rand Paul rallies. They will protect the freedom and liberty. Of some.
An absolute monarchy with none of those pesky voting rights or any others. Because we will all have to agree, and not have any say so as we do now. The new natural law will reign supreme with each one's social status to be assigned at birth. Tough if you're not one of the 'some' named above.
His image will be engraved on the Ron Paul gold coins issued by each state when the Federal Reserve and all amendments after the first two are repealed. Heck, the Constitution will be repealed as well, we'll go back to the Articles of the Confederacy.
After our new theocracy is accepted in the name of freedom and liberty for some, the 1% will pull back the curtains and rename the former USA as the Koch Kingdom. Get ready to bow to the nice men with the guns you've seen at the Rand Paul rallies. They will protect the freedom and liberty. Of some.
An absolute monarchy with none of those pesky voting rights or any others. Because we will all have to agree, and not have any say so as we do now. The new natural law will reign supreme with each one's social status to be assigned at birth. Tough if you're not one of the 'some' named above.
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Guardian's former Moscow correspondent on "Russia’s treatment of its own whistle-blowers" (updated) [View all]
ProSense
Aug 2013
OP
I'm grateful I'm living in a country where Obama is President as opposed to Putin's Russia
Cha
Aug 2013
#63
If Snowden was Russian and had exposed a massive Russian surveillance network
Uncle Joe
Aug 2013
#72
I agree, Putin did make the big catch and it just goes to show you what a sad state of affairs it is
Uncle Joe
Aug 2013
#77
You can call it self serving if you will and I would agree with you but perception is everything
Uncle Joe
Aug 2013
#79
Russia executes whistleblowers, the US jails them indefinitely, tortures them in custody,
NuclearDem
Aug 2013
#16
Who are the whistleblowers who the US jails "indefinitely" and "tortures" in custody?
ProSense
Aug 2013
#17
Yes, you did. You made a snarky remark as if to imply: So, the U.S. does this....n/t
ProSense
Aug 2013
#29
Oh for God's sake, just tell her/him nyah nyah nyah nyah, nyah, nyah - tag. You're it.
matthews
Aug 2013
#59
He'll come back when the horror that is Rand Paul is elected. Expect confetti and swooning...
freshwest
Aug 2013
#30
The piece in the OP is from today, and the administration position is not new.
ProSense
Aug 2013
#28
the u.s. reaction could have been anything. they made a statement on todays asylum...
allin99
Aug 2013
#31
I'm taking the mickey of you and your cohort's breathless denunciation of books
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2013
#43
OK. So there were murders, but you're just "taking the mickey" on a false equivalency.
ProSense
Aug 2013
#44
'Guardian reporter writes a book'='Guardian reporter writes a book' is a 'false equivalency'?
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2013
#45
Yes, the book has nothing to do with the current report, and the situations aren't remotely similar.
ProSense
Aug 2013
#46
The book is about the title of your thread, and by the man you describe in your title
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2013
#47
They've gone the free market paradise road. Just what the Libertarians want here. He'll do fine.
freshwest
Aug 2013
#66
Good post. Snowden choosing Russia is equivalent to a person choosing Satan as safe
bluestate10
Aug 2013
#69