Not This Time

U.S. Secretary of state john kerry made a funny joke. He said, he wondered why whistleblower edward snowden went to china and then russia in his flight from american justice, was it perhaps because those two countries are such staunch bastians of internet freedom?

Give credit where credit is due. good joke, john. But, is this a good time for american govt officials to be making jokes about government restrictions of freedoms in other countries?  The reason china and russia have no interest in turning over snowden to american justice is that they are enjoying too much using him as proof of american hypocrisy and mistreatment of its own people.

And, if you were them, wouldn't you? The american government, directed by obama, is seemingly going to stick to its guns with regard to its story, that it has been doing nothing wrong to the american people, but that snowden, by telling the truth about what the government has been doing, which is nothing wrong, to the american people, is now the greatest international criminal of all time, and must be returned to the U.S. immediately!

So, the surveillence of the people is not wrong, but reaveling it is?Why at least were we not told that our conversations were subject to monitoring? We were? Oh! OK! Fine...

the longer our political leaders defend the surveillence of america instead of apologizing for it, the more quickly we should turn them out of office. Already the stonewalling has begun, but we won't permit it, not this time.