American Federal Government Virtue

PRESIDENT OBAMA AND SEC OF STATE KERRY are admonishing the russians to "do the right thing" as they quaintly put it, and apprehend and return edward snowden to the united states, so he can stand trial for treason, and be publicly flogged, as an adoring public once again gives thanks to itw wise and beneficent government for saving the nation.

obama and kerry, twin paragons of american virtue, admonishing the russians to "do the right thing". Well, i aint the russians, but if i were, i know exactly where i'd tell the american government to put its right thing...

the chinese, and hong kong in particular, are now apparently on the american government's shit list for having failed to apprehend, arrrest, and return snowden. The chinese reminded the american guardians of virtue that they were in no way obligated to or responsible for doing anything of the sort to snowden, and that he was perfectly free to leave their country anytime he wished.

I would recomnend to the chinese that they not spend too much time worrying about being on america's shit list; after all, these days, who isn't? Most of its own citizens, evidently, and a good many sovereign nations as well.

five'll get you ten snowden will never make it back to america, but instead will simply vanish, with no explanation. when the american government wants you dead bad enough, you end up dead. I've read enough spy novels to know that.

If big brother succeds in bringing snowden home and punishing him, it will only serve to make a martyr out of the young man for his growing legions of admirers to use as an inspiration for civil disobediance. That would never do. He must vanish, and soon, for the sake of our virtuous fed gov.

Civil disobedience is what this country could use a good dose of; or maybe some good old fashioned civil demanding; demanding that the national surveillence state be dismanteld, and the patriot act repealed, and the national security global corporate empire be scaled back to an affordable level to avert national bankruptcy.

While the federal government tries to focus our attention elsewhere, anywhere, other than on itself, the federal government is exactly where our attentions should be focused, must be focused, if we are to avoid descending entirely into a police state dictatorship.