Edward Snowden Gets Sam Adams Award 3361

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Ray McGovern and the Sam Adams party have presented the Sam Adams award to Edward Snowden.  I am delighted.  This from Ray’s account of the event:

In brief remarks from his visitors, Snowden was reassured — first and foremost — that he need no longer be worried that nothing significant would happen as a result of his decision to risk his future by revealing documentary proof that the U.S. government was playing fast and loose with the Constitutional rights of Americans.

Even amid the government shutdown, Establishment Washington and the normally docile “mainstream media” have not been able to deflect attention from the intrusive eavesdropping that makes a mockery of the Fourth Amendment. Even Congress is showing signs of awaking from its torpor.

In the somnolent Senate, a few hardy souls have gone so far as to express displeasure at having been lied to by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA Director Keith Alexander — Clapper having formally apologized for telling the Senate Intelligence Committee eavesdropping-related things that were, in his words, “clearly erroneous” and Alexander having told now-discredited whoppers about the effectiveness of NSA’s intrusive and unconstitutional methods in combating terrorism.

Coleen Rowley, the first winner of the Sam Adams Award (2002), cited some little-known history to remind Snowden that he is in good company as a whistleblower — and not only because of previous Sam Adams honorees. She noted that in 1773, Benjamin Franklin leaked confidential information by releasing letters written by then-Lt. Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hutchinson to Thomas Whatley, an assistant to the British Prime Minister.

The letters suggested that it was impossible for the colonists to enjoy the same rights as subjects living in England and that “an abridgement of what are called English liberties” might be necessary. The content of the letters was so damaging to the British government that Benjamin Franklin was dismissed as colonial Postmaster General and had to endure an hour-long censure from British Solicitor General Alexander Wedderburn.

There has been a determined attempt by government to justify the need to intercept everybody’s communications, all the time.  We have, yet again, had MI5 claim there are many thousand violent Islamic terrorists running around the UK, (yet somehow not managing to kill anybody).  The cry of “paedophiles” is raised, as always.  I can imagine them suggesting the entire population be shot dead, and justifying it as making sure they get the paedophiles.  The tabloids would go with that.

There still had not been a single credible claim by the mainstream media that any named individual has died, despite that contingency being trotted out all the time as the reason Snowden and Manning should not have revealed state crimes and abuse of power.  I am hopeful that, with the internet still largely free to the dissemination of information, out next massive whistleblower is only weeks away.

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  • Jives

    Very very poor Jemand.

    Fascinating when i ask you a question you continue to obfuscate then whilst finally failing to answer you deflect by claiming i didnt answer your spurious claim i set Mary up due to a mispell of ‘harrassment’

    Typical troll tactic illustrating your shallow cowardly refusal to engage and face truth.I answered your question emphatically yesterday.

    Its such a childish approach you adopt Jemand,so weak and intellectually flawed..

    You should. embarrassed by your playground mode.

    Im absolutely certain Mary knows i didnt and wouldnt set her( or anyone else here) up on a NeoNazi website.Thats a disgusting thing to do.

    But i have to be candid.The only person obsessing with SF is you Jemand.I am now of the belief it was you that did that Jemand.

    Nasty liitle lying brat arent you?

  • Resident Dissident

    Mary

    Rifkind is not a Lithuanian Jew – his family left there in 1890.

    I agree that you will probably not be able to visit Syria – apologists for Assad are unlikely to be popular there for a long long time.

  • Macky

    Res Des: “No – but I would do so if someone else didn’t and I wouldn’t attack the person for trying to counter that post. BTW how is your search going to find a single case regarding the slur you made against me?”

    Sure you would, that’s when you are not supporting Habbu-Clown’s & others Islamophobia, or indulging in some yourself.

    You reply will come when I’ve had time to search some old threads, but when is your reply coming iro Clark’s Syria post to you, which doesn’t even need any old thread searching ?

  • Kedem Forever

    Its incredible, we have just seen a most MONSTROUS false flag where 426 Alawite children were kidnapped in Latakia to be GASSED at Ghouta for YouTube “effect”, to start a WAR. And we have shlomo and marty here whinging about lithuania and dots and commas. But its the same disease as WW2, instead of hiding in a corner in infinite shame that not just the Pope of Rome, but the ALMIGHT HIMSELF was SILENT, they start giving us fake hitler and ann frank diaries !! Similarly ,I half expect rifkind to be strutting around the Commons soon without an ounce of remorse. The devil could have caused hundreds of British lives plus billions of resources, all in the service of his fellow lithuanian ehud brog !!

  • Jemand

    @Sofia KN, I’m not sure what relevance your link has to anything. Is it to imply that white people are inherently bad? Yes, everyone here knows this already. We get that from both pseudo-cosmopolitan types and disgruntled non-whites like you all the time. Tell me something I don’t know. 

    You and your mates will enjoy this show from our “multicultural” broadcaster :
    http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/47357507749/

    @Macky & Jives

    Nobody here has expressed any confidence in either your scurrilous accusations nor your questionable innocence. Not even Mary. When you’ve got something new to add, drop us a line.

  • Mary

    ‘Not even Mary’.

    Note that attempt to divide us. It is of no matter what I think for I am just a commenter here but if you are asking, then yes, I have every confidence in every person here who isn’t a TROLL.

  • CheebaCow

    Jemand said:
    “By referring to me as “The Dingo”, much like some Americans refer to negroes as “coons” (as in racoons), you are revealing an unpleasant racist side to your childish persona”

    Sorry mate but I gotta ask you to turn in your Aussie card. We pride ourselves on having a thick skin, not turning completely innocuous comments into accusations of racism. I have never heard of anyone being called a dingo as an insult, but you compare it to coon?

  • Kedem Forever

    @Cheebar – Jemand is most probably a crypto Australian, like the ones seen in tennis garb at the Dubai Hotel where mossad carried out the Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh hit. Then again judging from his sympathies, may even be the other half of the gaju alliance (aka the rantzen/saville alliance that infests the beeb, led by its leading lezzy helen boaden), a militant oscar wilde !

  • Mary

    Sent by a local Palestine supporter.

    He said:

    Al Jazeera (channel 83 Freeview here) showed yesterday what appears to be a powerful documentary about Shin Beit:

    “Investigation into the methods used by Shin Beit through accounts by detainees, lawyers and a former agent”

    I only caught the last 10 minutes, but it will be played again:

    Today Sunday at 1400-1500
    Monday at 0200-0300
    Tuesday at 0700 to 0800

    You may find it interesting.’

    The programme is 1hr long. This is the link to an outline and report.
    http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2013/10/inside-shin-bet-20131020112634404283.html

  • Jemand

    Cheebacow, do you really pride yourself on having a thick hide? Of all the things that a man could pride himself on, you pride yourself on being an insensitive dunce and imagine that you speak for other Australians who carry a fictitious “Aussie” card. What does that card get you? Free entry into cheap Thai bars?

    If you even bother to reply, I’ll know that you’re full of shit with that thick-hide-pride crap. 

  • Anon

    ZBC propaganda stations continue to spread fear about the impending hurricane with the aim of diverting attention from continued zionist atrocities against the Palestinians. I won’t go so far as to say ziostan is using HARRP, but it is certainly looking that way. Fact is Michael Fish was right to call out fake zionist false-flag 1987 hurricane, the exact same year of the First Intifada and look where it got him; a lifetime of ridicule from the zio press !

  • Ben

    I take exception to species-specific racist comments. I have a half-Dingo dog 14 yrs and he’s the finest example of loyalty, smarts and good-dog behavior I’ve found.

    Really. Some of the racial sensitivity seems trumped-up.

  • Jemand

    Jives, my only interest in engaging with you is the scientific curiosity of probing the intellectual boundaries of a barely functional illiterate. Other than that, you are about as fascinating as a flatulent poodle blowing out the candles on a birthday cake.

  • Kedem Forever

    Rabbi Ovadia was also known for trivialising the venerated Talmud. His favourite warning against that fake passage about stock exchange thieves being entitled to 72 thai lady boys in Heaven, was that it would be Hell since the ladyboys would not have any apertures !!

  • Ben

    ” was that it would be Hell since the ladyboys would not have any apertures !!”

    Well if the can’t talk it can’t be all bad.

  • Jives

    Jemand,

    My only interest with you is in observing your intellectual incontinence dribbling down your legs whilst being aghast at your barely concealed racism and general misanthropy.

    Now stop your incessant whining you dribbling little brainfart and go and set up someone else on NeoNazi sites.

  • Kedem Forever

    @Ben – whats with you rednecks & hillybillys, you want to explore the Martian surface but are unable to explore what caused the HUGE 250 yard tall twin 110 story towers to explode within 8 seconds into MERE 3-4 story piles of rubble at ground zero base? Or is it classic denial? Mind you jewliani and bloomberg did a good job of conning the dumb Kellys and Pollacks of NY into carting away the evidence asap, all in very patriotic carcinogenic fervour no less, courtesy of Larry and Lowry’s asbestos purchase !

  • Ben

    Kedem; Lovin’ your snarkasm and your Pan-‘mercan tolerance. A lot of comedians are of the Chosen People. Do you write Letterman’s monologue, or Russell Brand’s stand-up?

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