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In reply to the discussion: How can ANY Democrat defend the detention of Greenwald's partner? [View all]DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)101. ''Just make this NSA story STOP PLEASE!''
- When they stop, we'll stop. And as Harry Truman said: ''If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.''
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Gonna Be A Quiet Thread... But We Are Here... With YOU... And David... And Glenn...
WillyT
Aug 2013
#5
When you help people who are breaking the law please expect to become a suspect and then
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#12
The person who admitted to hiring onto a company for the sole purpose of stealing from it and the
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#15
Depends on what they were trying to do with the stolen gov info or what the person who stole them
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#22
Nope, on the word "possible" alone...see, you don't screw with the gov this way and there's no ...
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#25
If I stole gov info and could be possibly helping terrorist or who the go considers enemies then not
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#33
Yes, steal gov info give to AQ and help them attack the US to bring down and admin
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#45
Legitimate link and quote to US citizens being "spied" on!? Videoing a person walking into a store
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#53
You know perfectly well that Greenwald and Miranda aren't giving info to Al Qaida.
Ken Burch
Aug 2013
#61
lol....had me, GG is an asshole...I've seen him proffer a position and if challenged even a little b
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#63
If Miranda was illegally carrying classified information, why wasn't he arrested?
burnodo
Aug 2013
#81
and who admitted to hiring onto a company for the sole purpose of stealing from it??
burnodo
Aug 2013
#20
Link and quote ANY of the activities PROVEN to be illegal and I'm not talking about internal
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#35
False, and still no link and quote. My post said no one would believe them as they haven't
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#54
yes I congratulate him as well. And I believe he has been extraordinarily brave
Swagman
Aug 2013
#80
So you'd have said the Freedom Riders and those who helped them had it coming?
Ken Burch
Aug 2013
#29
Then you change the law from inside not break it needlessly and the argument of
uponit7771
Aug 2013
#44
I agree that people of color have it worse under our legal system...and you already knew I did.
Ken Burch
Aug 2013
#59
So the NYT and Washington Post reporters and editors who aided and abetted
Warren Stupidity
Aug 2013
#83
so all laws should be obeyed even when those laws violate basic civil liberties??????
bowens43
Aug 2013
#126
People are calling him a mule and a trafficker. They are infantilizing him
Luminous Animal
Aug 2013
#18
If he went on a mission to transport laptops, ets for GG then he is classified as a mule.
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#27
Using the term "mule" in this context implies that there is no moral difference
Ken Burch
Aug 2013
#69
GG has been publishing information, maybe Miranda should punish GG for setting him up.
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#111
Mule, the device of transportation, Miranda was a mule for GG, GG did not want to transport
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#110
because they care more about Obama's reputation than the direction America is headed
Skittles
Aug 2013
#31
Precisely - IMHO - Dedicated Obama Supporters Are Having Difficulty Supporting A Bush Era Program
cantbeserious
Aug 2013
#47
More likely they are knowingly facilitating the direction America is headed. nt
NorthCarolina
Aug 2013
#52
You ARE aware that Greenwald's partner was caught with stolen classified info, right?
ConservativeDemocrat
Aug 2013
#70
So what if the information was "classified"? our national security state is so out of control
Ken Burch
Aug 2013
#76
Because they are raging hypocrites who will defend anything a govt. agency that answers to Obama
MotherPetrie
Aug 2013
#58
there is a struggle between those of us who believe in the liberal and democratic society and those
Douglas Carpenter
Aug 2013
#71
I don't know any Democrats who ever supported these Bush policies and I don't any
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#100
Opinion of a lawyer who piloted the 2000 Act through the Lords: Miranda should not have been detaine
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2013
#124