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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."
Why is what they did wrong? Snowden should be held accountable for his actions and he should be tried on all charges they want to throw at him. They are doing their job to ensure that he is. He'll probably be found guilty of some.
THEN we call our senators, congressmen, presidents, popes, PTA members, florists, undertakers and anyone else that will list, and demand he be given a full pardon. Assuming of course his crimes were simply spilling the beans on evil activities of our government.
His life is a wreck no matter where he hides he knew that when he made his decision. He may as well do it here and let US citizens stand by him, or crucify him, as it is nominally our interests he was trying to protect. By running and hiding with our enemies, he looks very guilty.
Could we please stop making everything about drugs? There is so much to life that is much more important than potheads and their perceived "right" to self-injury through drug abuse.
Out of all the problems the world faces, drugs are the least important, and I'm very tired of drug addicts ceaselessly bringing up the War on Drugs like it was the single most pressing issue our nation has ever faced.
Given that drug abuse is endemic amongst low-income minorities in America, I can't help but think that drug legalization is a covert form of racism -- keep them hooked, make the drugs easier, cheaper to get. Legal drugs ensure people born and raised amongst drug addiction will have every incentive to stay addicted. It's a way to keep a huge part of our population, namely those least fortunate, oppressed through chemical means. People like yourself who rally for legal drugs are rallying to enable even more dependency amongst those who will be hardest hit by it.
Again, if you can find a brief moment of mental clarity, please consider all the other issues we face and give them equal attention instead of putting your need for drugs up on a pedestal. There are so many wrongs to right and your own greedy, selfish desire to get high is by far the least important one.
And for somebody with such a low UID, I'm assuming you are old enough to have seen how little good the push for drugs in the 60s did. It left us with lots of dead musicians, dead artists, and dead drug advocates who ended up being more famous for how they died than what they accomplished when they were sober. You should know better, and you should be ashamed of yourself for still greedily seeking drugs in spite of that.