Iceland Vote 6-63 AGAINST granting Snowden Citizenship..

[HipChick]

Iceland proposal would grant Snowden citizenship

Some Icelandic lawmakers have introduced a proposal in Parliament to grant citizenship to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, who admits to revealing key details of U.S. surveillance activities.

But the idea has received minimal support.

Snowden is believed to be stuck in a Moscow airport transit area, seeking asylum from more than a dozen countries. But to apply for asylum in Iceland, Snowden would have to reach the nation's soil.

Granting Snowden citizenship would circumvent that issue.

However, the bill to grant Snowden citizenship received limited support Thursday. Six members of minority parties were in favor out of Parliament's 63 members.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/04/snowden/2490501/

[itsrobert]

1. Not many countries want a traitor among them

Who could trust the slimeball?

[AlinPA]

26. I think he would be accepted by Iran or North Korea.

[movonne]

59. One man's traitor is another man's patroit..

[itsrobert]

63. Patriot?

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[atreides1]

61. Agreed he's a slimeball and a criminal.

But he isn't a traitor!

[Major Hogwash]

2. So, you're saying I've got a chance.

I read ya.

[flamingdem]

3. Wolf is about to run this story on CNN

I think he's trying to say that some Iceland lawmaker might help him escape his fate, too late Wolfie!

[HipChick]

5. his goose is kinda cooked..

I don't feel sorry for him, but kinda feel bad for him..

[flamingdem]

6. Yes, it must be terrifying to be in his position

He really does seem to have been used by Greenwald and Wikileaks, lead astray, and who knows who else pushed him into it.

[HipChick]

11. yep...that is what I am thinking..

[Hekate]

20. I really do wonder about that. If so, this would be the second time Wikileaks suckered some poor sap

And yeah, terrifying.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Wolf must be desperate

for face time given he's working today.

[flamingdem]

10. I was thinking the same thing!

Some of us are captive at home with only Wolf for entertainment

[BumRushDaShow]

15. LOL

[flamingdem]

19. lol - okay so now it's AC 360 about Trayvon

why can't it be about Hong Kong Eddie!

I want a 24/7 channel devoted to Eddie and his exploits with correspondents in La Paz, Vienna, Moscow, and Beijing!

[BumRushDaShow]

29. Must be because soaps normally run during the day

[JackN415]

40. Rofl

[Democracyinkind]

4. Applying for Asylum in Europe without being on site is almost hopeless. nt

[Tx4obama]

7. A list of more countries that have said 'no' on the link below

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023149488

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Ouch...score one for the "totalitarians"

[flamingdem]

12. Let's face it

Snowball isn't much of a match for the US apparatus, regardless it is somehow satisfying to see his options running out.

Okay, I feel a teensy bit sorry for him, mostly because he's a clueless kid who had GG baiting him and Assange deciding his life from his closet

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. 30 years old isn't a kid

Which makes it all the more painful that he was so badly manipulated by Assange and Greenwald and the rest.

[dkf]

22. Oh for gods sake this was what he wanted to do.

Because he believed that we the people value our rights. He didn't realize we are a bunch of sheep who want to surrender it all.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. Oh yaaaah

Bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya.

[rhett o rick]

43. Typical childish response esp. copying Sid's emoticon. nm

[flamingdem]

48. We the sheeple

[randome]

32. Please. I had a 55 year old uncle who was as clueless as a 14 year old.

Some people never grow up. Something is not right with Snowden.

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[flamingdem]

50. It took a loopy person to create total chaos in the world

I thank him for the entertainment

[bike man]

45. Actually, he's an adult who bought his ticket and is now running to avoid taking the ride. nt

[flamingdem]

47. His choices are narrowed to going broke at the Novotel Pod Hotel semi Prison

and returning to the USA to be a semi hero in prison, well until people forget about him.

A bit grim.

Who is paying his hotel costs? Anyone know?

[CakeGrrl]

53. He's an adult who took the job with intent to steal.

He just doesn't want to deal with the downside of the theft.

I'm not sorry for him at all, or his martyr complex. His biggest fear is being called to account and be responsible for what he's done.

[flamingdem]

54. He's even got his dad telling him to come back

Maybe he'd do 10-15 years and he'd still be young when he gets out.

[UTUSN]

13. Those VOTING totalitarians!1 nt

[flamingdem]

16. They've been intimidated

Imperialism's long arm is in Iceland!?!!!!

[bluestate10]

62. Always an easy answer. May be they just don't want Snowden in THEIR country.

Your ilk is for other country's rights until their choices don't fit your visions.

[Downwinder]

14. Nobody in debtor recovery is going to go against their banker.

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. I thought Iceland was our anti-bankster hero paradise

Oooof. The world's so confusing.

[Cali_Democrat]

21. That's right

I thought I read numerous articles here about how Iceland has freed themselves fron the banksters.

[alcibiades_mystery]

23. They're as free as a bird now

They couldn't possibly succumb to pressure. What give?

[CakeGrrl]

58. Chalk it up to the long, long arm of Dear Leader, Darth Obama.

Surely he turned Iceland against poor Snowden.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Where the banker = China?

Because that is who is the one buying everyone's debts and loaning money worldwide.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12212936
http://topnews.in/chinese-lender-becomes-world-s-biggest-bank-2380718

[Life Long Dem]

27. It's getting to the point where Snowden could be thinking about turning himself in

There are still other countries he is waiting on, but they all seem to be saying the same thing. Russia wants him to leave. Where would that leave him? Out in the open for the US to pick him up?

[HipChick]

34. I think this is the position they want him to be in

[flamingdem]

49. There's still China ..

Can't they put him to work as a hacker?

[Life Long Dem]

60. Snowden betrayed his own country

What country would put this spy to work - he could be a plant spying on them.

[bluestate10]

65. Snowden can have progressive lion lawyers travel to Moscow and escort him back home,

then come back to fight it out with the government while lawyered up. But Snowden won't come back under his own terms because he is a coward and a traitor. Snowden will be dragged back, used, abandoned and sniveling.

[mazzarro]

28. Your caption is deceptive and WRONG!

When you state that a vote of 6-63 AGAINST granting citizenship - that is false. The support of six members for the bill to grant citizenship does not necessarily translate to the final vote if the bill is voted on. The article did not say anything about the bill having been voted on!

Besides, the total number of members is 63 and if 6 of them are in favor, then only 57 may be against. So get your arithmetic correct and quit telegraphing your propaganda.

[HipChick]

33. Save it..

Save the faux outrage for the journalist that wrote the article...is says AGAINST..however you want to spin it..

[burnodo]

35. The article you linked to didn't have that headline

And 6 to 63 against would mean 63 in favor

[Cali_Democrat]

36. The article was changed

[DisgustipatedinCA]

56. You'll need to provide evidence of your shaky claim, else we need to count on your word

There's no value in that. Got a picture?

[randome]

30. Earth: 40. Snowden: Love.

Looks like the poor boy's backhand is giving him problems.

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[Scurrilous]

31. Man, that's cold.

[randome]

41. Actually, Greenland is colder than Iceland and Iceland is warmer than Greenland.

Crazy-ass vikings!

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[Scurrilous]

42. I blame Aquavit.

[flamingdem]

55. I think Aquavit is pulling all the strings

Exactly how can I pray to Aquavit? I need some favors done.

[JackN415]

37. That's 6-57, not 6-63 if all they have is 63 members. Still, too close to call per Wolf

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[flamingdem]

38. He just had to tantalize with the "small country that could save Snowden"

schtick

[randome]

39. There may be an Inuit tribe or two in the Arctic who will take him in.

With all the different words they have for 'snow', they might welcome someone named Snowden.

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[flamingdem]

51. Perfect! Finally a harbor in the storm.. nt

[boilerbabe]

44. they know Obama would send in the drones.nt

[BumRushDaShow]

52. -

[hrmjustin]

46. I am not surprised! It is not worth pissing of the US government over this guy.

I think someone will take him.

[Iliyah]

57. Another gawd damn thing

I need to how to speak spanish to know what the eff is going on with . . ,

[randome]

64. Conditions at the transit hotel are said to be rapidly deteriorating.

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[scarletwoman]

66. Bullshit subject line. There's been NO VOTE, just a bill introduced.

The proposal has the support of 6 OUT of 63 Parliament members, meaning 57 don't support it. You can't even manage to get the math right.

Why are you making shit up?

[HipChick]

67. Reading is fundamental..

6 Support out of 63?

[scarletwoman]

68. Yes, that's what's the article said. It did not say there was a VOTE.

WTH is wrong with you? You post a false headline, and you imply that a vote that hasn't happened was 6 to 63. The article in your link clearly states that out of 63 members of the Icelandic Parliament, only 6 members supported the proposal to grant Snowden citizenship. Which means that there are 57 members of the Icelandic Parliament who did not support it, not 63 as your headline implies.

I am merely pointing out that your OP has the facts wrong, nothing more. Why you should find that an occasion for hilarity is beyond me.

That you would be delighted that the proposal for granting Snowden Icelandic citizenship has little support is not surprising. That you would feel the need to baldly mis-state the bare facts of the matter is something else.