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Douglas Carpenter

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17. I posted it on Facebook with this message

Wed Jun 26, 2013, 06:51 PM

Jun 2013

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Since I have recently reestablished contact with people from the tiny and unabashedly conservative western Pennsylvania hometown I left exactly 40 years ago tomorrow - I wanted to write something that would appeal to both liberal and my old conservative and libertarian hometown and classmates:

Whatever you think of Mr. Snowden - whatever you personal politics are - Mr. Snowden is a libertarian and I am a socialist - you could not get farther part. But he has taken a stand against tyranny - tyranny supported by both parties - by the current President and the former - Like with Paul Revere - the fate of a nation is riding with him - Please stand with him now and sign this petitions in support of a request for political asylum for this brave and heroic young man.

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Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Tom Hayden (+ YOU) Urge President Correa to Grant Snowden Asylum [View all] Catherina Jun 2013 OP

Cut the money flow, they want to harbor a then we don't trade with them. Thinkingabout Jun 2013 #1

Correa might get Ecuador's trade agreement w the USA renewed if flamingdem Jun 2013 #32

K&R'd! snot Jun 2013 #2

That might put him at the top of CIA's "to do" list. kenny blankenship Jun 2013 #3

+1. nt newfie11 Jun 2013 #4

What a superb letter this is. Thank goodness we have these powerful voices. woo me with science Jun 2013 #5

I think a jury of his peers should decide whether he did or not arely staircase Jun 2013 #10

... woo me with science Jun 2013 #19

359 recs. You are a rock star! Luminous Animal Jun 2013 #22

Of course, here is the rock star garnering all that support: woo me with science Jun 2013 #24

I'm also interested in his 6th Amendment rights. May he get to excercise them soon. arely staircase Jun 2013 #25

LOL. Yeah, I'm sure woo me with science Jun 2013 #26

so Bush and Cheney didn't get prosecuted we should just let all criminals go? arely staircase Jun 2013 #27

"...we should just let all criminals go." woo me with science Jun 2013 #28

Why not? burnodo Jun 2013 #33

Kick Karmadillo Jun 2013 #6

Can you guarantee that I marions ghost Jun 2013 #7

Hahahahaha! n/t Catherina Jun 2013 #9

Under the bus you go. progressoid Jun 2013 #8

that underbus is much bigger than the bus at this point burnodo Jun 2013 #11

and the people under there seem to be pretty nice too. n/t progressoid Jun 2013 #14

Lol, I've been under the bus since June 2008, right after Obama's FISA vote Catherina Jun 2013 #12

kick and rec burnodo Jun 2013 #13

knr Douglas Carpenter Jun 2013 #15

I signed it. kentuck Jun 2013 #16

I posted it on Facebook with this message Douglas Carpenter Jun 2013 #17

I know your environs marions ghost Jun 2013 #21

yeah, they are probably watching the Fox News version of events that is telling them Douglas Carpenter Jun 2013 #23

done d_b Jun 2013 #18

Did that earlier. Thank you so much for bringing it to DU. Luminous Animal Jun 2013 #20

kik Douglas Carpenter Jun 2013 #29

another kick Douglas Carpenter Jun 2013 #30

moot point because Ecuador can't afford to accept Snowden flamingdem Jun 2013 #31