The Traitor

IT WOULD MAKE A GREAT john grisham novel, and it would be titled "The Traitor".  As our story begins, a young man working for the CIA makes a fateful decision; to reveal to the american people the existence of a top secret, and illegal, domestic surveillance program, then promptly flees the country.

Soon thereafter, he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, and his mother is terminally ill. And also, the american people are rallying around him, and want to protect him from their own avenging government. Desperate to return to america, he yet fears for his freedom, and even  his life, if he does so. Meanwhile, two law firms, a big top shelf washingtion based three hundred lawyer downtown firm, and jake brigance, in a small mississippi law office, offer to help.

Both jake and the big boys in washington have unique skills which render them potentially highly helpful to the young patriot in exile. But how to find him, contact him, and get him home safely?  And how to deal with the ominous threat of the federal government? Continue reading, as the drama unfolds and the suspense builds in john grisham's legal thriller, "The Traitor".

Meanwhile, back in the real world, edward snowden has apparently checked out of hong kong, and disappeared, probably wisely, on the run again. Wisely, because powerful people like senator diane feinstein and senator lindsey graham are calling his actions "treasonous", and vowing to go to the end of the earth to find and bring him to justice.

Meanwhile, a petition  containing twenty thousand signatures has reached the white house, seeking a presidential pardon for snowden.While members of congress are flying personal jets, at tax payer expense, all over god's creation looking for the traitor, an aroused american electorate could very well swell the number of petitioners to twenty million, or more.

And the nature of the petition could change. The right to petition the government for redress of grievances is right there in the constitution, front and center. Modern age electronic marvels make government surveillance far more dangerous and intrusive than ever before. Ah, but the same marvels of communication make petition circulating and signing magnitudes more potent, and rapid, than ever previously.

Meanwhile, the chinese seem to have no interest of the american celebrity in their midst. For them, its "so what"?  The hypocritical americans. They condemn china for its lack of civil rights, but they have no civil rights either. Their goveermnet spies on its people,, monitors them too. So what? The americans have always been hypocritical.

You can almost smell the coffee percolating, and sense the fingers of the talented john grisham, as they scurry across the computer keyboard, turning out yet another legalistic thriller.