Snowden living under guard, touring Russia

[struggle4progress]

17 Sep 2013 - 6:38am
Source AAP

... "No one is being told his place of residence. This is done on his request because we understand that the level of danger is quite high," Anatoly Kucherena told RT television ...

Asked if Snowden still had more secret material that he had not yet handed over, Kucherena said yes without giving any details.

"Yes, undoubtedly. You have to understand that Edward worked quite a long time for the CIA. He is a good specialist. He is a professional" ...

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/17/snowden-%C3%A4living-under-guard-touring-russia%C3%A4

[treestar]

1. Oh well that sounds like freedom

[former9thward]

8. People who have security are not free?

Maybe someone should tell that to President Obama and Bloomberg.

[treestar]

14. But an ordinary working man should not need security

And anyone who lives in Russia does not have freedom of speech.

[LittleBlue]

15. He only needs security against his own government

Which is sad.

[treestar]

18. I guess then everyone accused of crime in the US

needs security.

Yet he would not get away with such in Russia. When he breaks the law there, he'll be forced to face it.

[former9thward]

19. Snowden is not "an ordinary working man".

I suspect you know that. Russia does not have freedom of speech in the American sense -- neither does Canada, England, France, Germany, other EU countries and pretty much every other country in the world. But Russia is not the Soviet Union. There are open opposition newspapers and demonstrations on various topics opposing the government are common.

[treestar]

22. I thought Snowy got a job there?

They were going to give him one.

He can't do the whistleblowing thing there, he'd get arrested. Oh wait. He wouldn't get the chance to flee.

Russians still don't have freedom of speech, not to the extent of the other countries mentioned. Why were Pussy Riot jailed and what of the new LGBT law that limits what people can say?

And those laws now apply to Snowy.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Nice gig if you can get it.

I wonder if he can have a Dacha on the Black Sea?

[Scurrilous]

3. Better yet, the Aral Sea.

[MinneapolisMatt]

5. I see what you did there.

[Art_from_Ark]

20. If he wanted a dacha on the ever-shrinking Aral Sea,

he'd have to get asylum in either Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan.

[Motown_Johnny]

4. "If you look out the left side of the bus you can see the line for toilet paper."

[randome]

6. Right next to Disney World Russia!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Don't ever underestimate the long-term effects of a good night's sleep.[/center][/font][hr]

[former9thward]

9. Russia is not the Soviet Union.

Nobody is waiting for toilet paper or anything else. Their mass transportation systems far superior to any in the U.S.

[struggle4progress]

10. Girls fight for toilet paper

[former9thward]

12. Ohh BS

There are hundreds of thousands of youtube videos out there that I could cherrypick and show the U.S. is in some post-Apocalypse state. Russia is doing just fine despite your propaganda.

[struggle4progress]

21. you may be right, but i just couldn't resist

[sheshe2]

7. I was wondering where in the world

Carmen Snowed-in was.

Under lock and key, free dumb!

[Blue_Tires]

11. Sorry if already answered, but does Snowden even know the language?

[randome]

16. He's like The Doctor. He speaks everything. Even Baby.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Rules are made to be broken. Including this one.[/center][/font][hr]

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. ROFL

Farce upon farce!



Enjoy Russia, Mr. Snowden.

[UTUSN]

17. Why would the "level of danger" be high in such an Eden of freedom and for such as he?