On Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:06:22 AM UTC-5, George Cornelius wrote:
dave wrote:

The USA was established to secure the blessings of Liberty for the People.



You're one for pat answers aren't you? Let somebody else do the

thinking, then spit out their thoughts as if you've been gifted

with profound insight.



Look into how T. Jefferson of the flowing words was drafted into

writing the Declaration and you'll realize there were dozens, even

hundreds, of founding fathers, each with his own ideas as to the

basis of our revolution. Jefferson could just say it more

elegantly. The same applies to the phrasing of the Preamble of

the Constitution.



These are rallying cries, not reality.



As to whether Snowden needs to be prosecuted, there's little doubt

about it. He did us all a service, and the legislation that was the

basis for all this is and was an atrocity. But there were thousands

of ways for this information to leak out, especially by ordinary

citizens working for Google and Verizon and anywhere else a

Patriot Act or FISA order was directed, without a trusted employee

of our espionage agencies becoming a turncoat and delivering

documents he was entrusted with into foreign hands, and doing so

in ways designed to cause as much damage to American foreign policy

as possible.



Let him become a citizen of a tinpot dictatorship. That's where

he should be. And he should shiver in his boots at the thought

of coming anywhere near anyone with the wherewithal to whisk him

away and deliver him to Washington for prosecution.

Google,,, Living in Venezuela