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France Could Offer Asylum To Assange, Snowden
HughPickens.com writes: The Intercept reports that in the aftermath of the NSA's sweeping surveillance of three French presidents, French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira thinks National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange might be allowed to settle in France. Taubira was asked about the NSA's surveillance of three French presidents, disclosed by WikiLeaks this week, and called it an "unspeakable practice." Taubira's comments echoed those in an editorial in France's leftist newspaper Libération that France should respond to the U.S.'s "contempt" for its allies by giving Edward Snowden asylum. France would send "a clear and useful message to Washington, by granting this bold whistleblower the asylum to which he is entitled," wrote editor Laurent Joffrin in an angry editorial titled "Un seul geste" — or "A single gesture." (google translate) If Paris offers Snowden asylum, it will be joining several other nations who have done so in the past, including Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela. However, Snowden is still waiting in Moscow to hear from almost two dozen other countries where he has requested asylum.
Presumably on Corsica
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
France cave-in and surrender?!?!? NEVER!
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
There's already a tunnel to France. He only has to dig as far as Folkestone.
They have a proud tradition of protecting pedophiles and rapists.
Diplomatic ladder
You have obviously never played Civilization. You can even goad Gandhi into dropping nukes on you if you spy on him sufficiently.
Go play and then get back to us.