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Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia
New submitter kc9jud writes "The BBC is reporting that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia. According to his lawyer, Snowden has received the necessary papers to leave the transit zone at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, and the airport press office is reporting that Snowden left the airport at 14:00 local time (10:00 GMT). A tweet from Wikileaks indicates that Snowden has been granted temporary asylum and may stay in the Russian Federation for up to one year."
Reader Cenan adds links to coverage at CNN, and other readers have pointed out versions of the story at Reuters and CBS.
You know why the left hates the libertarians? Because the libertarians are everything that the left wing used to be before they sacrificed their ideals to the alter of political correctness.
Supporting slavery has never been left-wing. By insisting that they be able to pay people whatever the market will bear rather than a living wage, libertarians are insisting that they should be able to keep slaves.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
...aaaaaaaaaaand he's gone. Hopefully out of reach of all repressive regimes, including the USA.
Snowden left a free society and the first place he landed was a city in a one party communist state, the People's Republic of China, well known for its repression. From there he somewhat improved things by going to Russia, which left communism behind, but now has been sliding back towards authoritarianism for some time. From there Snowden hopes to travel to one of several leftist regimes in Latin America. Those regimes are not exactly known as beacons of freedom and respect for civil rights. Snowden traded life in a free society for life in repressive regimes. I suppose it is somewhat fair given the damage he did to the security of the US and its allies.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
I can tell, because in addition to the end of secret courts and the rest of the Patriot Act, Guantanamo closed, we left Iraq on the Bush timetable, and drone strikes have ceased.
So now the Dem's are just as bad as the Rep's because they haven't done enough to clean up the mess left by the previous administration? Seriously, did you criticize W for not cleaning up the horrible mess left by Clinton. Oh wait. There was no horrible mess.
You mean like the Medicare Part D that was passed by a Republican House, Senate, and President? You are right, that would never happen.
Otherwise, it goes a bit too far, but is a pretty solid troll.
Yeah, the Rep plans that guarantee even greater profits for the medical and insurance industries to the detriment of patients because basic meds and tests are not on the approved list. Yeah, wonderful health care record that.
Seriously, can you be more biased? I mean the Dem's are bad, but the Rep's are so much worse there isn't even a contest. If anything, the Dem's are just following the Rep's lead when it comes to being evil.
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.