Coke head Evo Morales grounded
The Associated Press reports that European governments suspected that Evo Morales, the coca-leaf-chewing president of Bolivia was smuggling Eddie Snowden, the rogue NSA contractor, out of Russia in his private jet, so those countries withdrew permission for the president to cross into their airspace, forcing him to land in Austria. Austrian authorities say that Snowden wasn’t on the presidential aircraft.
A furious Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said France and Portugal would have to explain why they canceled authorization for the plane, claiming that the decision had put the president’s life at risk.
“We don’t know who invented this lie” that Snowden was traveling with Morales, Choquehuanca said in La Paz. “We want to denounce to the international community this injustice with the plane of President Evo Morales.”
In a midnight press conference, Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia said that not only France and Portugal, but also Italy and Spain were denying the plane permission to fly through their airspace.
He described Morales as being “kidnapped by imperialism” in Europe.
I guess Morales, the former coca farmer, and supporter of the late communist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, was contemplating allowing Snowden take refuge from justice in his country.
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Sucks to be him. If there was any karma, Morales’ pilots would be sampling his coke and fly into the Atlantic, if they can get permission to transit anyone’s air space.
Apparently Evo’s pilots are a bit bad on geography, you get denied .. you turn around and fly them asia wayz … but the dude is alwasy complaining that everything that happens is the “Imperialistic country’s fault”
Although to be honest the extremely harsh reactions about Snowden make me want to know what the hell he knows that everyone says “sure come here, but shut up” … even Putin…
Snowden is a plague, and any country that attempts to help him is going to end up sick. They should ALL have better sense. Particularly Russia.
This is just too funny, funny, funny. I really cannot blame a head of state for being offended at this sort of treatment, and taking advantage of the opportunity to raise Cain about it. But really.
Was this an aerial chess game using assorted heads of state and their various aircraft departing Moscow? Kinda looks that way.
The biggest problem with Snowden for most countries is that he knows some interesting stuff, but probably not so radical or worthwhile to make it worth pi**ing off the US. What NSA is doing is essentially traffic analysis of message externals, just bigger and better than they used to. I would guess most major powers do the same within the limits of their capabilities, and whatever he brings to the table may not be possible for them to exploit, or would not be worth it. Going to be pretty hard for a third world sh*thole to exploit info that needs multiple Crays to process. So the advantage for them to pick a fight over something like this is dubious at best, and only a few in-the-US-face places like the DPRK or Iran might be interested – and I suspect looking at the list of countries in which he has requested asylum, he’s avoiding many of those armpits.
Something is afoot here. According to news agency TASS, Snowden is still on the ground at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday, “Russia has never given up anyone to others. It isn’t doing this right now either and will never do it in the future.”
Venezuela is the country that ran out of toilet paper a few months ago. Morales is an incompetent boob who will drag that country right back into the poverty that oil eliminated. The only thing he hasn’t done is shut off the oil wellheads.
There was a news report last night which stated that, so far, 20 countries have refused asylum to Snowden. I doubt that Russia even wants him. More like they’re just tolerating him for the chance to thumb their noses at the USA a little bit.
Snowden may end up on a ship offshore with no one offering him a ride or a sandwich.
Seems like there is no shortage of little morons who think too highly of themselves. I’ve been there on a much less grand scale…
But some of these bozos don’t understand what treasonous wretches they have become… and how detestable…
Meanwhile in congress …
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/dni-chief-clapper-apologizes-for-clearly-erroneous-answer-to-congress-on-nsa-data-collection/2013/07/02/3d007b0c-e35a-11e2-bffd-37a36ddab820_story.html
Yeah he forgot to tell them … way to go *facepalms*
Let’s say Evo grants Snowden asylum. Do you think his skinny ass would be safe from delta or the teams? Not for a New York second. After all we don’t have to bring him home, we could pop him in place and exfil before Bolivia knew we were even there. We could even infil Bolivia by commercial air. It would be a very light footprint operation. Bring it on Evo, earn those socialist badboy chops.
Not being a user of non prescription pharmaceuticals I can live without anything that Bolivia exports to The USA.
I just hope he does something stupid and pisses of the Russians. They can lock his doofy ass up with the shanks from “Pussy Riot”/
Does this mean I’m a dumb dumb?