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In reply to the discussion: Mr. Snowden now being smeared: as "a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison" [View all]99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 11, 2013, 05:10 PM - Edit history (1)
Why doess the USA have way more people in our prisons than China?
China is giving him some degree of sanctuary from being Aron Schwartz-ed
or Bradley Manning-ed to death, which is sad when OUR whistle blowers need
to rely on China or Equador for sanctuary, rather than their own gov't.
It's an international disgrace.
ON EDIT: Please note that I am NOT saying China is "better" than the US on
civil rights as a whole; but I AM pointing at TWO things:
1) We actually DO have more citizens behind bars (both per-capita and in real
numbers I believe), which is a disgrace; and
2) The USA IS becoming more and more invasive, unjust, and downright sinister
about spying on it's own citizens and other abuses of people's constitutional rights,
such as assassinating "suspects", jailing whistle-blowers rather than the perps of
civil rights abuses, etc. .