Hollywood supports Snowden
David sends us a link to Just Foreign Policy which reprints a letter from the usual suspects who support Eddie Snowden, the NSA contractor who is in the process of releasing state secrets to encourage fellow traveler, Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, to accept Snowden as a refugee from American Justice;
We have seen this drama play out several times before under the Obama administration. The administration has charged more than twice as many whistle-blowers under the Espionage Act than all previous presidents combined. These have included Thomas Drake who also exposed wrongdoing at the NSA, and most notably Private Bradley Manning, who stands accused of providing Wikileaks with information that revealed U.S. war crimes, U.S. meddling in other countries’ affairs, and other grave and troubling misdeeds.
As could have been the case with Assange, Manning’s treatment since his arrest shows that Snowden could be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment if he were taken into U.S. custody. There is also a grave danger that Snowden would have difficulty in receiving a fair trial in the U.S. – a point he reportedly has made in his petition for asylum. Manning’s case also shows that Snowden’s constitutional right to a “speedy” trial might also not be secure. These are all serious examples of political persecution against Manning that may await Snowden if he becomes a U.S. prisoner.
The list of signatories includes a bunch of the regular anti-American, commie-hugging know-nothings from Hollywood including Oliver Stone, Michael Moore, Danny Glover, John Cusack, Roseanne Barr and bunch of other B-list people of whom I’ve never heard. In the mix are political gadflies like Joe Wilson (wife of Valerie Plame), Noam Chomsky, Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans, Ann Wright, Tom Hayden (Mrs. Jane Fonda) and Daniel Ellsburg.
Yeah, so if I had an intention of ever supporting Snowden, this letter pretty much satisfies that urge. I also understand that if this had happened before last year’s election, none of these luminaries would have made a peep over the issue.
Category: Usual Suspects
I said it would happen…next will be the big fundraiser.
You know how I know I’m right? Because I’m on the opposite side of Medea Benjamin. Anytime you have doubts, just see where that pernicious cunt stands, and take the opposite side.
Then there’s “The Jester”, whose reportedly hacking (or threatening to hack) into countries’ web sites that show willingness to harbor Snowden:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/02/pro-us-hacker-jester-takes-aim-at-nations-helping-snowden/
Maybe he’ll start hacking the Hollywood clowns too?
If he got a fair trial, he’d be convicted and hanged.
Is there a bounty on this dipshit? Now this just makes me want to collect on it…
To say ‘Hollywood shitbags’ is redundant. Although I do like it. Kind of like stringing obscenities together when you stub a toe.
i don’t think that well rounded people really care what Hollywierd schmucks have to say!
“Manning’s treatment”???? Fuckstick should have been shot. Treason isn’t really punished as it should be any more. He’s getting luxury treatment if you ask me.
Does the fact that so many leakers are gtting prosecuted mean there is at least one thing this administration is actually doing right? Circle this day on the calendar.
None of this is surprising, except that Woody Harrelson’s name is missing, so is Bobbie Redford’s and Sean Penn’s.
I’m sure that they’ll hustle to get their names on the list.
I agree, PN, Hollywood Shitbags, with the occasional Beltway Shitbag(Joe Wilson) thrown in.
I conquered the gag reflex long enough this time to read the entire list…. its veracity is suspect since it describes Shia LaBouf as an actor and Michael Moore as a documentary maker. Anyone who has ever seen anything either has done knows better.
@10. Sean Penn is still in mourning over Chavez’s death. Redford is nonambulatory, dribbling on his bib and screaming obscenities while exposing himself to passersby. Woody H. is in a jungle in Thailand trying to find himself and hasn’t yet heard the news.
AirCav, you sure about Woody? I heard he was busy looking for Yon’s cast-off house bois.
Redford is still around, yearning for the good old days, when the Weather Underground was active. When he isn’t drooling on himself.
I’d personally like to thank all these dipshits for reminding my why I haven’t put a fucking DIME into their pockets for close to a decade now, which is the last time I stepped into a first-run movie theater.
Just on principle, I’m repeating all the actors’ and actresses’ names here, so that even the ones not mentioned above will show up in future searches of this site.
Danny Glover, Film Director
Amber Heard, Actor
Shia LaBeouf, Actor
John Cusack, Actor
Roseanne Barr, Comedian
Andy de la Tour, Actor, screenwriter
Susan Wooldridge, Actor and writer
Emma Thompson, Actor, screenwriter and author
Julie Christie, Actor
A couple of them, like Shia LaBeouf, are associated with Redford’s terrorist-loving movie, The Company You Keep.
And another couple of them were in Harry Potter movies. Three, if you count the sister of Andy de la Tour. (Not fair to count people not in the petition, but let her complain to her brother about that.)
Normally I don’t get to upset, but everytime I see a pic of Snowden, I puke my guts out. whatafuckingturd
So far, he hasn’t found a real place of refuged. I suggest the Kamchatka Peninsula, or one of the Kyril Islands that line up to the south of it. Perfect place for him: no one will here him scream for ice cream.
Danny Glover?
He beat The Predator.
Without Mel….
Wow. What a loser.
Still thinks he is in Lethal Weapon series…maybe 12?
Clown.
Mel hates Jews.
Danny hates the South African Consulate in LA and obviously freedom.
Danny boy, surrender your passport, leave and get with old man porn in gay places.
Has been.
loser.
Per evening news report, Snowden has applied for asylum in 20 different countries and so far has had no takers.
I guess no one wants him except for slugs like Michael “Listen to My Whine” Moore.
Shia LaBeouf, Actor = Pill popping punk. And he is an expert how?
Rosanne Barr = White Trash made good.
Is it any wonder that in Shakespeare’s times actors were considered lower than common prostitutes. It has always amazed me how people tend to think that actors are the characters they play on screen. These people for the most part only read the words written by others. Lots of these actors are complete train wrecks as human beings. Some are real people, but they are few and far between. We seem to think that celebrity brings insight and we hang on every word. Most of these folks are not deep thinkers and they have no greater knowledge or insight than the average citizen. How could they, their entire world is illusion. They can play a professor on the screen, but in truth most are not even college grads. And that counts theater majors. They are welcome to their opinions, but they need to shut up when they know nothing about the greater world or the subject under discussion.
Who gives a shit what these hollyweird commies think? I don’t. Every last one of them are commies, or commie sympathizers.
While I sympathise with @2 Nicki’s sentiments, why are you all so angry at Snowden? Isn’t revealing Obama’s Oligarchical Collectivist antics a good thing?
@23. Latecomer? The consensus is that what was revealed and how it came to be revealed are two distinct matters. Thus, I, for one, would like to pillory the basatards who may be invading my privacy while simultaneously seeing Snowball summarily shot–after a lengthu period of waterboarding.
@24 I’ll go back and read earlier posts on the subject and their comments. Due to work and workouts I haven’t been reading TAH as much as I usually do.
The question for me is; would we have found out about any of this without Edward Snowden? If the answer to that question is no then I think he deserves accolades for revealing these abuses of power regardless of whatever else he has done.
@25. Yeah, I wasn’t being wise and I’m glad you didn’t take it that ay. There is another thread that covers this issue.
@25 Your bank, your local grocer, any credit agency you can name, and a myriad of other institutions track your every purchase. You can be turned down for a loan because of a late utility bill, did you know that? We are tracked (and penalized anonymously) every single minute of every day by PRIVATE entities of all stripes. And yet, you’re harping about data mining of phone records by a governmental agency that could give a rat’s ass about who you call, unless you’re up to mischief. What did you think intelligence agencies use for gathering information? A crystal ball?
Snowden did what he did to cause chaos and upheaval, not for any misguided love of his fellow human.
The initial exposures are not the problem. The problem comes in the subsequent exposures of actual classified information.
I suspect Snowden would be well received by the extremes of the political spectrum, the Paulians as well as the internationalists.
Snowden has proved himself to be a man without honor, and now, a man without country. Despite the initial exposures, which revealed un-Constitutional invasions of privacy, of search and seizure, Snowden has proven himself to be just a common traitor, who failed to plan his own escape, and hence failed to be as smart as he thought himself.
I will give the Hollywierdos one point though: a speedy trial seems to be unlikely in today’s world. Nidal Hassan, Breanna Manning, and others should have been serving out their remaining days as convicted felons, years ago.
And I’ll re-iterate, the treasonous activities of Snowden, in no way makes the data-mining espionage of the govt on its subjects any more Constitutional. Obama could not have asked for a better messenger to deliver the revelation. It appears Americans now accept the govt intrusion on their personal communications, as equally as they do TSA sexual assaults at the airport.
@27 I think that there is a difference between an organization gathering information about me through my voluntary interactions with them and the government keeping me and everyone else under constant surveillance without any justification what so ever.
I also think that the intentions of private organizations are less likely to be hostile towards me than the government’s intentions and their ability to act on those hostile intentions is also much less than the government’s ability to do so.
In any event two wrongs don’t make a right. The fact that private organizations gather information about me doesn’t make it acceptable for the government to do so too.
You say that the NSA doesn’t care who I’m calling. Presumably you also assert the IRS doesn’t care about my political affiliations?
I want intelligence agencies to use every method available to gather information. I also want them only to gather information about people that they have reasonable suspicion to believe are a threat to the security of the kingdom.
@28 Thank you for posting, that helped me to understand the position that the TAH community is taking.