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“When the drones get here, another Obama program, the drones are going to be awesome,” he warned.
“The drones will have scanning devices that can fly over your home and grab all the digital data in the place where you live. The drones are going to up the ante, there’s no doubt about it. The only question is whether this is still the United States of America. There’s nowhere to hide anymore.”
because that has stopped the U.S. before?
Originally posted by WeRpeons
They were just talking about going after the reporter who broke the NSA leaks with the help of Edward Snowden. This is a dangerous presidence if reporters are going to be held responsible for reporting possible illegal activity by the government. This is simply a strong armed tactic to keep reporters at bay.
What reporter is going to risk exposing anything related to any questionable government programs? The free press is supposed to protect its people from government tyranny. Where are the checks and balances here? This is alarming, because the last thing we want is a press that is controlled by our government.
So a whistle-blower is now going to think twice, before he exposes any illegal or criminal activity on the part of our government? The last time I checked, I lived in the United States of America. We have a constitution that protects our rights and freedom from a government over reaching their authority.
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics"
Originally posted by marg6043
reply to post by Sankari
If the crocks behind the government scandals with the NSA knows that they are full of dirt and Snowden have some of that dirt on them, you bet your butt that they want him death.
or what you think that they are going to invite him for afternoon tea and cookies?
This just reinforces my opinion that this whole "Snowden" deal is manufactured story.
Killing either Snowden or Greenwald destroys any shred of credibility the government clings to and tells the world they are cold blooded killers as well and spies gone wild.
Originally posted by GrantedBail
This just reinforces my opinion that this whole "Snowden" deal is manufactured story.
Originally posted by GrantedBail
That is my buck-fifty. I know I am one of the few here that think this way.edit on 12-6-2013 by GrantedBail because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Tribunal
reply to post by Bob Sholtz
because that has stopped the U.S. before?
You really think the US government would strike Snowden in Hong Kong with a cruise missile or a drone?
Get real.
Accidentally killing innocent civilians, so long a criticism of the American targeted killing program, would become a terrifying certainty in Hong Kong. FATA suffers more drone strikes than anywhere except Afghanistan, and has a rough population density of 300 people per square mile. Hong Kong, by contrast, has 17,000 people per square mile. It's unlikely a drone, flying above Hong Kong at 30,000 feet, could even locate Snowden in a population that dense.
If a drone could find Snowden, it's reasonable to assume that that hundreds of innocent people would be killed or injured in the missile attack, which almost certainly constitutes an act of war between the U.S. and China.
Hong Kong is probably an unsafe place for Snowden because of other reasons, but death by American drone strike isn't something he has to worry about there.
Oh dear. Poor old irrelevant Ron Paul, the paranoid conspiracy theorist's friend. You can always rely on him for a whacky media statement.
Is Edward Snowden currently located in any country where the US is operating drones? Is there any evidence that the government wants him dead? Is there any evidence that killing him would actually help the government in any way, considering the information he's leaked is already in the public domain?
Seriously folks, let's get logical here please.