[Peace-discuss] Fw: One Day After Russian Asylum for Snowden: Obama Administration Launches Terror Scare

[ewj at pigsqq.org]

They panicked.

This one is too obviously faked/contrived to show
the Amerikan people how much they need Big Sibling
to protect them.

They can make it rain also 
and prove that the threat is 
credible, real and present danger.

When  ????  is some one with a Voice,
some sons and daughters of 1984, 
going to rise up and
say 

"it's enough, you motherfuckers!

it's way more than enough!

I am not going to wear your collar and headset anymore!"




>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>
>  To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@mail0.frost.chambana.net
>  Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fw: One Day After Russian Asylum for Snowden: Obama Administration Launches Terror Scare
>  Sent: Aug 06 '13 06:17
>  
>  I also thought the timing of this " terror scare "  was quite a
>  coincidence, considering the recent Snowden asylum AND more  importent in
>  my opinion, the close U.S. House vote on defunding the  NSA.
>  Like the criminals they are, they have an M.O. and  hence at times all too
>  predictable.
>  
>  David J.
>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  FROM: [LINK: mailto:tanstl at hotmail.com] David Sladky
>  SENT: Saturday, August 03, 2013 7:27 PM
>  SUBJECT: One Day After Russian Asylum for Snowden: Obama  Administration
>  Launches Terror Scare
>  
>  
>  One Day After Russian Asylum for Snowden: Obama Administration Launches
>  Terror Scare
>  
>  
>  By [LINK: http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/thomas-gaist] Thomas Gaist
>  Global Research, August 03, 2013
>  
>  
>  [IMAGE: war_on_terror_uncle_sam]  Amid escalating denunciations and threats
>  against  both Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA)
>  contractor-turned  whistle-blower, and Russia, which granted Snowden
>  temporary asylum on Thursday,  the Obama administration on Friday issued a
>  “global travel alert,” closing US  embassies in Tripoli, Cairo, Tel
>  Aviv, Baghdad, Riyadh and Doha based on  supposed threats of Al Qaeda
>  attacks.
>  In total, 22 embassies and consulates  are to be closed, and a terror alert
>  has been issued covering the entire Middle  East. Official statements have
>  asserted that a contact from Yemen—a country that  has been under
>  bombardment from US drones for years—gave information raising the
>  possibility of terror attacks against US embassies.
>  All three major  television networks led their evening news reports with
>  the government’s claims,  reporting them uncritically despite the lack of
>  any substantiation or any  specific purported threats. Terrorism
>  “experts” were trundled out in the usual  fashion to stoke up public
>  alarm.
>  None of the government’s claims should be  taken for good coin. They
>  follow more evidence of broad popular support for  Snowden, whom the Obama
>  administration is witch-hunting and targeting for  prosecution—or
>  worse—for leaking details of secret surveillance programs that  invade
>  the privacy and violate the rights of every American and millions more
>  people around the world.
>  On Thursday, a Quinnipiac poll was released showing  that 55 percent of
>  Americans believe Snowden is a whistle-blower, versus only 34  percent who
>  buy the government line that he is a spy or traitor. Weeks of  official
>  statements from Obama, top intelligence officials and politicians of  both
>  parties claiming that the spying operations are needed to combat terror
>  threats have obviously fallen flat with the public. There is every reason
>  to  believe that Friday’s terror scare was launched in an attempt to sow
>  disorientation and dissipate opposition to the illegal and unconstitutional
>  spying programs.
>  The Obama administration has threatened to cancel a planned  meeting
>  between Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow following  the
>  upcoming G20 summit in St. Petersburg. This would be one form of
>  retaliation  for Moscow’s granting of temporary asylum to Snowden.
>  Russia’s decision to  allow Snowden to leave the Moscow airport to which
>  he had been confined for over  a month and settle in Russia for at least a
>  year provoked furious denunciations  from the American political
>  establishment. “Obviously this is not a positive  development,” said
>  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on Thursday. “We are  evaluating
>  the utility of a summit.”
>  Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of  New York called Snowden a
>  “coward” and denounced Russia for “stabbing us in the  back.”
>  Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said Snowden was a “traitor to
>  our country.”
>  “Any time our president is seen to be disrespected, it’s not  good,”
>  Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said in an interview.
>  “Our foreign policy is not working. This is an example of it not
>  working.”
>  Lon Snowden, father of Edward, told CBS in regard to the asylum  decision,
>  “It’s the honourable thing to do, and as not just a citizen of the
>  United States, but a global citizen of this planet, an occupant of the
>  Earth, I  am so thankful for what they have done for my son.”
>  “As you know, he is  receiving threats from the United States government
>  every day,” said Anatoly  Kucherena, the Russian lawyer who facilitated
>  Snowden’s asylum request. “The  situation is heating up.”
>  “The personal safety issue is a very serious one  for him,” Kucherena
>  added. Security concerns will constrain Snowden’s movement,  according to
>  Kucherena, who said that he “can’t go for a walk on Red Square or  go
>  fishing.”
>  Friday’s terror alert comes in the midst of a public relations  campaign
>  by the administration to portray the spying programs as legal and
>  carefully monitored by Congress. This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee
>  held  a hearing to take testimony from top officials of the NSA and the
>  Justice  Department concerning the programs. Amid talk of the need for
>  “transparency” and  “accountability” from some of the senators on
>  the committee, the hearing only  underscored the absence of any serious or
>  principled opposition in Congress and  the complicity of both parties, the
>  Congress and the courts in the buildup of  the apparatus of a police state.
>  Congress was fully informed about the NSA  programs for years before
>  theGuardian published Snowden’s leaked  documents. Democratic Senators
>  Mark Udall of Colorado and Ron Wyden of Oregon  have been trumpeted as
>  adversaries of the NSA surveillance and defenders of  civil liberties. In
>  fact, they make no serious challenge to either the programs  or the spy
>  agencies that carry them out.
>  Their supposed opposition is  two-faced and cowardly. Neither of them even
>  voted against the confirmation this  week of a former Bush Justice
>  Department official and supporter of torture and  the NSA spying programs
>  as the new Federal Bureau of Investigation  director.
>  They propose token measures to provide a fig leaf of legality and
>  constitutionality to programs that directly violate the Bill of Rights. In
>  a  recent meeting between congressional would-be opponents of surveillance
>  and  President Obama, Wyden proposed the addition of a “privacy and civil
>  liberties  advocate” to the secret court that reviews surveillance
>  requests.
>  He claims  to oppose NSA programs that collect the records of all US
>  telephone calls, but  adds caveats that would allow the government to
>  continue to shred the Fourth  Amendment’s ban on warrantless searches and
>  seizures. “I am open, for example,  on areas like these emergency
>  authorities to make sure that our government is in  a position to get
>  information needed to protect the public,” Wyden said after  the meeting
>  with Obama.
>  Neither Wyden nor any of the other congressional  “critics” of the
>  spying programs defend Snowden or other whistle-blowers who  have exposed
>  US government crimes, such as Bradley Manning and Julian  Assange.
>  Meanwhile, virtually every day brings new revelations of pervasive  spying
>  programs. A [LINK:
>  http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57596791-38/fbi-pressures-internet-providers-to-install-surveillance-software/]
>  CNET  report released Friday stated that the FBI has been pressuring
>  telecommunications providers to install “port reader software” that
>  enables  real-time interception of internet metadata, including IP
>  addresses, e-mail  addresses, identities of Facebook correspondents, and
>  sites visited by  government surveillance agencies. As CNET wrote: “The
>  US government is quietly  pressuring telecommunications providers to
>  install eavesdropping technology deep  inside companies’ internal
>  networks to facilitate surveillance  efforts.”
>  
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