Australia Spied On Indonesian President

mask.of.sanity writes "Australia tracked calls by Indonesia's president, documents leaked by defence contractor Edward Snowden reveal. The nation's top spy agency the Australian Signals Directorate tracked phone calls made and received on the mobile phone of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for 15 days in August 2009, and also tracked his wife and inner political circle. Indonesia was Australia's nearest and most important regional neighbour."

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Re:Please shoot this man.

[girlintraining]

Killing him won't destroy his documents. It's certain he's got multiple backups with multiple people.

We took a stand; we don't negotiate with terrorists. That's the policy. We got a guy out there who has made demands, and when his demands weren't met, started leaking classified documents. That's what terrorism is: He tried to goad the government into a specific course of action by inspiring fear.

Whether he has backups or not is immaterial. Osama Bin Laden had backups -- how many of his number two guys did we ice before we finally got to him? A lot. But we did. We sent a message.

Why would the US government risk egg on their faces and a further highlight the degradation of American Ideals for nothing?

American ideals? Please, elaborate. Tell me, specifically, which ones you think matter here. Because right now all you're doing is making a vague handwave towards flags and patriotism, and isn't that what we've been accusing the government of doing? Isn't that what we're campaigning to stop? To get some honest to god transparency?

So please, be specific. I insist.

Mod this troll too

[girlintraining]

You guys just don't get it. You're the very thing you claim to despise: The government comes and squishes free speech because it's unpopular... but then here you are, doing the same damn thing. The government isn't suppressing us: WE are suppressing us. We're plugging our ears and singing "Glory Glory Hallelujah."

And then you people wonder why we get shit like behavioral profiling, full body scanners, and police claiming they can do whatever they want. Well, look in the mirrors guys. You're staring at the reason: It's your steadfast refusal to get involved in the democratic process.

You think I'm wrong? You think this discussion hasn't been had in the oval office? By all means, come out and say so. Or you can sit on the sidelines and watch everything go to shit because you were too cowardly to even offer an opinion.