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| EDWARD SNOWDEN, NSA WHISTLE-BLOWER WHO SAVED AMERICA |
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| VLADIMIR PUTIN, PRESIDENT RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
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| BARRY SOETERO, FIRST JEWISH 'BLACK' US PRESIDENT 'GIRLY MAN' |
No one likes a
bully and no one likes a liar. The United States government is surely both
because other nations have no problem openly treating it with the disdain it
deserves. The saga of Edward Snowden provides the latest proof of the disrespect
that America has brought upon itself. Its tantrums and rants mean little to
anyone outside of the USA bubble.
Snowden is the
NSA whistle blower who presented proof to the world that the United States is a
lawless nation which treats its own citizens as enemies. The response to his
revelations proves that the American people have no friends in Washington, not
in the White House or Congress or on either side of
the political aisle.
After making his
revelations public Snowden headed for Hong Kong apparently in the mistaken
belief that there he would be protected from extradition. When the United States
decided to charge him and suspended his passport he flew to Russia and
officially asked Ecuador for asylum. After angry denunciations from the
secretary of state, senators and butt kissing so-called journalists, Russian
president Vladimir Putin made all their points moot when he announced that
Snowden will not be turned over. He reminded the United States that Snowden has
broken no Russian laws and that there is no extradition treaty between the two
countries. Not content to merely say no, Putin got in a few digs of his own.
Emphasizing that he didn’t wish to discuss the matter further he said, “It’s
like shearing a piglet. There’s a lot of squealing and very little
wool.”
The Chinese
government was equally dismissive. After Secretary of State John Kerry issued
public warnings of “negative consequences” to U.S./China relations, Chinese
government spokeswoman Hua Chunying also got in her digs and reminded the United
States that Snowden revealed evidence of American espionage directed at
China. “I’d like to advise these
people to hold up a mirror, reflect and take care of their own situation first.”
Ouch.
It is striking
that both China and Russia allowed Snowden to travel despite the government’s
very public requests to prevent him from doing so. Both countries were quite
happy to give America a very public comeuppance. It isn’t actually very
surprising considering the belligerence with which our government has
behaved.
In 2011 the
United States connived and got both China and Russia to agree to a no fly zone
in Libya, only to turn the measure into a license to overthrow Gaddafi and have
him killed. Both countries were made to look like fools but like all bullies the
United States hopes that they won’t mind getting fooled twice and will go along
with a similar scenario in Syria or any other place on earth where America
chooses to act like a gangster nation.
All talk of
reboot and rests are just that, mere talk. The U.S. goes out of its way to
impede China’s inevitable rise to worldwide economic supremacy with the “pivot”
that is a way to intimidate China with military force. Demands to turn over an
American whistle blower consequently fell on deaf ears.
Unfortunately
the lessons to be learned about the Snowden case are lost on a misinformed
public. Americans haven’t even been given the most basic information about what
Snowden has revealed or that the few members of congress who question the data
sweep can’t reveal the nature of their concerns because the material they want
to present is classified. When we should get genuine reporting we get derision
and snark from “journalists” acting like mean kids in the high school
clique.
Snowden may be
thought of as heroic but isn’t necessary to idealize him in order to defend his
actions. He is a whistle blower and prior to the Patriot Act and the Obama
administration escalation of persecution, whistle blowers were protected. In
1971 Daniel Ellsberg released the classified pentagon papers to the New York
Times but the Nixon administration had little legal recourse against
him.
Armed with the
Patriot Act and a determination to hit dissenters with the heaviest sledge
hammer possible, the Obama administration threatens Bradley Manning with life in
prison. One thing is absolutely certain. If Snowden hadn’t flown to Russia he
would be facing the same terrible fate.
In its zeal to
get another whistle blower the government didn’t even know how to use the
traditional diplomatic niceties which are used to get business done. The
harangues and threats had the opposite effect of making Snowden sympathetic and
irritating nations already angry with American arrogance.
It isn’t clear
if Snowden will ever get to another country or if he will spend his life at
Moscow’s airport. Whatever the outcome of this particular case, it is clear that
when America’s military might isn’t a factor it is treated with all the respect
any pariah deserves.
“He
violated the oath. It’s treason!” said Dianne Feinstein with regard to
Edward Snowden upon his revealing how the US Stasi State spies on its
citizens.“I don’t look at this as being a whistleblower, I think it’s an act of treason,” the Jewish chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee told reporters in early June 2013.
>>>While mayor of San Francisco, Feinstein married Jewish financier Richard Blum in 1980. Those who knew them called theirs “a marriage of the public and private sectors.”
And that “marriage” brought to Blum and his Jewish friends many handsome profits garnered from various and sundry public projects sent their way by Feinstein.
Upon her entering the Senate in 1992, (along with Jew Barbara Boxer…Jew money brings Jews into high places), Feinstein’s financial portfolio ‘bloomed’ at rapid speed along with her husband’s diversified investments providing for enormous mutual wealth.
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