Jill Stein Pledges To Pardon Snowden and Appoint Him To Her Cabinet (zerohedge.com)

Iamthecheese writes: Trump hates him. Clinton misrepresented him. Most mainstream media outlets call him a traitor and worse. But if you vote Stein, Snowden will be in the presidential Cabinet. "The presumptive Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein promises to grant NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden -- who many describe as a true American hero -- not just a full pardon, but a promotion to the upper echelons of government should she win the White House," reports Zero Hedge. "[Snowden] has done an incredible service to our country at great cost to himself for having to live away from his family, his friends, his job, his network, to basically live as an expatriate," Stein asserted during a town hall live-streamed to supporters on her Facebook page, US Uncut reported. "I would say not only bring Snowden back, but bring him into my administration as a member of the Cabinet," she continued, "because we need people who are part of our national security administration who are really, very patriotic. If we're really going to protect our American security, we also have to protect our Constitutional rights, and that includes our right to privacy." Her pardons would also extend to CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou and Chelsea Manning. Kiriakou first revealed proof of waterboarding and various other torture tactics employed by the government, while Manning leaked the Afghan War Diary and Iraq War Logs, which included footage of U.S. helicopter airmen deliberately gunning down journalists, to Wikileaks. Reddit co-founder and MIT student, Aaron Swartz, who leaked academic research to the public, would also receive a pardon under her presidency. "[Swartz] was a proponent of free and liberated internet and for sharing our resources on that internet, who was basically hounded into suicide by a very oppressive Department of Justice. So, he -- in my mind -- is another one of these heroes that we need to remember and be very thankful for."

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Oh dear

[wonkey_monkey]

Jill Stein Pledges To Pardon Snowden

Yeah, I can see how that might actually be a worthy thing to od.

and Appoint Him To Her Cabinet

Ah, she ruined it. She's obviously just whoring for votes.

Re:Oh dear

[rtb61]

So a person that gave up all his power and salary to protect the citizens he felt he should represent is a bad person for cabinet? So based upon you claim, seriously you hugely stupid claim as an American, the founding fathers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution) should all have been hung, drawn and quartered and absolutely never have gained positions in government and anyone who said they should is a whore.

Dr Jill Stein has shown the same courage as the founding fathers in making a profound policy decision that goes against the oligarchy and the current power institution in the military industrial complex. Would Edward Snowden do a good job in cleaning up the corruption of the self serving and hugely over powered intelligence services, probably, if he survived long enough.

Reality is the next US election is a complete fuck up. With the least hated individual to be elected by a minority that bothered to show up, the only enthusiasm will be in the Libertarian and Green party. With many from the Republicans and Democrats intending to stay how because they have nothing but shit to vote for, apart from those who will protest vote Libertarian and Green, they will be out in droves as well as party die hards.

The next election is the one, that who ever wins will wish they didn't and due to deep social reach of primaries getting many unstable fringe elements involved in politics and then being betrayed yet again, well, the Secret Service and the FBI will really have their work cut out for them keeping that talking head chuppa chup alive. Making millions our of the white house corporate media channel. What a mess it will be.

Re:Well, I _wanted_ to like her.

[Halo1]

She's in favor of "homeopathic medicine",

That seems to be a little simplistic, given that she apparently even got the Green Party to remove all mentions of homeopathy from their platform. That said, pure placebo's (such as homeopathy, VR and even the colour of pills) can have their use either separately from (in case of e.g. a hypochondriac) or in combination with regular treatment.

and says that nuclear energy is, "dirty, dangerous and expensive, and should be precluded on all of those counts", when the actual data shows just the opposite.

If you take into account all of the government subsidies, including covering the industry's uninsurable risks, I'm not sure whether at least the cost argument holds.

Furthermore, she wants "a moratorium on GMOs", which wikipedia states, "There is a scientific consensus[147][148][149][150] that currently available food derived from GM crops poses no greater risk to human health than conventional food".

While she indeed argues against it because of safety arguments, there are plenty of other reasons why many people are against GMOs. Just look at the majority of comments on the Slashdot story regarding one of the "GMOs are safe" studies.

I REALLY want to vote third party, but we need some third party candidates who are not anti-science crackpots.

Bashing using arguments that are either easily refuted, or at the very least less clear cut than presented, is anti-science. Name-calling while posting as AC is just silly.

So much for critical thought

[Uberbah]

I don't dispute that Snowden did a public service in the end. However, he also broke the law and for that there should be consequences.

And the lawbreaking Snowden reported on? Why aren't you guys demanding every employee of the NSA be hauled into court, right on up through the executive branch to the president himself? Why aren't you demanding Obama be charged with 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each instance of illegal warrantless wiretapping?

And why don't you authoritarians give two shits about the Constitution? If you did work for the government, you took the same Oath of Office that Snowden, Manning, Drake, and Kirkarou did. The only way for those men to uphold their oaths was to violate the laws protecting obscenely unconstitutional actions, like the NSA's warrantless wiretapping and the CIA's torture program.