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US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden
An anonymous reader points out this story about the latest effort by the U.S. to get Edward Snowden back in the country. "A U.S. Senate panel voted unanimously on Thursday to seek trade or other sanctions against Russia or any other country that offers asylum to former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, who has been holed up for weeks at a Moscow airport.
The 30-member Senate Appropriations Committee adopted by consensus an amendment to a spending bill that would direct Secretary of State John Kerry to meet with congressional committees to come up with sanctions against any country that takes Snowden in."
Maybe Snowden should go to China. Now, if the US places sanctions on China, that would be funny.
Never go full retard.
We mad. How could you tell? It's not like we've been holding people without trial and torturing them, right?
Rumour has it that Snowden has requested asylum with the one place that the US government can take no punitive actions against whatsoever. A Place the US has no power or authority over...
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Personally, I'd love to see China offfer Snowden asylum. The likely result of a Chinese trade embargo would shutdown most wal-marts, and would be a catalyst in bringing manufacturing back to the US. This would be a win-win.
My initial reaction was really, my secondary reaction is to go to the liquor tore and start hoarding the best russian vodkas.
Sigh, I really think that our senators and congressmen are a big group of metally retarded ninnies.
Snowden knows a lot more than he's told the general public. I'm pretty sure when they say they're afraid he'll tell them everything else, that's their genuine worry. Remember Setec Astronomy.
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Maybe Snowden should go to China. Now, if the US places sanctions on China, that would be funny.
The sanctions law will probably be so hastily/poorly written that if Snowden ever returns to the US, the US will have to sanction itself :-)
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It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Maybe he should sneak into the US. Then they'd have to sanction themselves, which would be the ultimate troll.
Enemies? Since when have China and Russia been our enemies?
Hell yeah, Putin's been having a ball with this.
His only difficulty being that he likely to had to practise saying, "He is welcome to stay in Russia if he promises to stop giving out American secrets," several times before he could do it without laughing for the next 5 minutes or so.
Pretend you're Putin, and try saying it yourself with a straight face.
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