US hints at Edward Snowden plea bargain to allow return from Russia.

[Titonwan]

99. And what a facetious law it was.

Wilson enacted that law to suppress Your 1st Amendment rights. What he did was basically putting people in jail for protesting the involvement in WW1.
Just like this fake democrat is doing now. Eight times, this administration has prosecuted the Espionage Act and that's more than all other presidents combined. From the 'most transparent government ever®' we've seen the most covert administration in modern times (ask the press about WH access). The attacks on whistle blowers is paramount to authoritarians who need the status quo to ensure this corporate welfare. (Hi $hillary Goldman-Clinton!)
This coup is happening slow and incrementally- like a boiling frog- and most don't or won't be bothered with history. Or last year. Or last month.
Point: This stupid law is an aberration on constitutional rights. The oath to service is to serve and PROTECT the Constitution. Seeing the rights of the people being violated compels one to violate the 'rules'. Fuck rules against the Bill of Rights.


"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."--Goering at the Nuremberg Trials

Or this little ditty...


"Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
- Mark Twain "Chronicle of Young Satan"

Kinda like the nativist hate for a patriot that sought to wake Americans up to what has creeped in- fascism. That patriot be a one Edward Snowden.