Bernie Sanders : Why I don't care about Edward Snowden

[jmdrake]

That snake Bernie Sanders took this page down this year but the Internet Wayback Machine shows it was up from 2013 all the way through the beginning of 2020.

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Why I Don't Care About Edward Snowden’

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

That headline over a National Journal column posted on Wednesday by Ron Fournier struck a chord with Sen. Bernie Sanders. Snowden is the former National Security Agency contract worker who divulged records about the NSA and FBI sifting through telephone and Internet records of tens of millions of innocent Americans. He has been in the media bull’s-eye since The Guardian posted a video in which he talked about his decision to turn over classified documents to the British newspaper and to The Washington Post. “He made a decision,” Sanders said. “He knew what he was doing and he will pay the consequences whatever that may be. But let’s not get distracted from what the real issue is. The real issue is not Snowden. The issue is what he revealed.” Fournier also focused on the serious questions raised about the massive and once-secret surveillance program. “Are the two programs revealed by Snowden legal and constitutional?” Fournier asked. “What else is the government doing to invade our privacy?”

 

[Anti Globalist]

The man is a communist. The fact that his supporters think he would have pardoned him is ludicrous.

 

[Anti-Neocon]

I don't know what he would've done but that quote is saying that the new information discovered transcends the people involved, which is a lesson that Trump cultists could learn from.

His actual stance he articulated in 2016 is pretty horrible and pretty clearly demonstrates how he is no friend of liberty on this issue (see: below) but it was still many shades less bad than the mainstream establishment:

The information disclosed by Edward Snowden has allowed Congress and the American people to understand the degree to which the NSA has abused its authority and violated our constitutional rights.

Now we must learn from the troubling revelations Mr Snowden brought to light. Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies must be given the tools they need to protect us, but that can be done in a way that does not sacrifice our rights.

While Mr Snowden played an important role in educating the American people, there is no debate that he also violated an oath and committed a crime. In my view, the interests of justice would be best served if our government granted him some form of clemency or a plea agreement that would spare him a long prison sentence or permanent exile.

...and certainly much better than 2013 Trump's fascist approach of labelling whistleblowers as spies who should be executed unless they do you a favor:

Snowden is a spy who should be executed—but if … he could reveal Obama’s records, I might become a major fan

It's really just sad that Bernie's position puts him in the upper 10 percentile of Congress. Read more about this at The Guardian (link).

 

[Sammy]

Communist Bernie sanders doesn't care about civil liberties if he had his way he would put all non democrats in fema camps.

 

[RJB]

Communist Bernie sanders doesn't care about civil liberties if he had his way he would put all non democrats in fema camps.

Socialist only care about equal distribution of paper money. Civil liberties like free speech to complain about the bread line that you are waiting in is bad for the revolution.

They use ideals (Christian charity, liberty, etc.) as a trojan horse. They are so close to their goal that they no longer try to hide behind that now.