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Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 11/27/2016 - 1:24pmEdward Snowden won a potentially critical court case recently.
Edward Snowden won a potentially critical court case recently.
In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Lewis Carroll tells the story of Alice, a more-or-less average curious, rational child, who, on a dreamy summer day, chases a waistcoat-wearing white rabbit down a rabbit hole into a bizarre land. In this, and in a later book ("Through the Looking-Glass"), we find many strange characters producing many puzzling and irrational quotes. For instance, we have the giant talking egg, Humpty Dumpty:
When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master—that's all.'
And we have the Queen of Hearts, who is quite quick to propose simple, brutal solutions:
[The King] called the Queen, who was passing at the moment, 'My dear! I wish you would have this cat removed!'
The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking round.
... and, when the Dormouse spoke out of turn in court:
'Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out. 'Behead that Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiskers!'
An observer of American politics since 1980 or so, might well picture oneself as, like Alice, having gone down the rabbit-hole to find many strange Republicans, who, like the characters in Wonderland, issue puzzling and irrational quotes. Over the decades, here are just a few of the characters we have met, as we went down, down, down ...
The Washington Post, the very same paper that set some kind of record by running 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours, has managed to find a new historical low never before seen in American journalism.
The ACLU and Amnesty International have begun a "Pardon Snowden" campaign.
If you saw Citizenfour and enjoyed it like me, you were left with one question: "What happened in the weeks after Snowden left the hotel room, and before Moscow?"
The answer to that question is about to be revealed.
It appears the DNC hack finally managed to get Hillary Clinton to get serious about security.
"@Snowden has revealed great violations of our civil liberties. I would invite him into my administration as a member of my cabinet" - Jill
— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) July 13, 2016
The government's treatment of whistleblowers is a greater crime than the thing for which they are jailed. #Manning https://t.co/8czTE0rlEf
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) July 6, 2016
Drake posted this in twitter
Thomas Drake @Thomas_Drake1 1h1 hour ago
5 yrs ago today I faced down a 35 yr prison term in a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment handed down against me by the US gov't. 1/195 yrs ago today I faced down a 35 yr prison term in a 10 felony count Espionage Act indictment handed down against me by the US gov't. 1/19
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. - Milos Forman