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Originally Posted by crockett
Meddling? He is requesting political asylum..
Pretty sure the United States signed this ..
Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution."
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um.... that's 'persecution' NOT 'prosecution' - he committed a serious crime against his own country. if Snowden had revealed a government plan to gas its own citizens i'd expect other countries to grant him asylum. if you haven't noticed, the majority of the American citizens aren't bent out of shape over this issue, they are buying the government's position that what intelligence gathering is being done is for their own protection.
not one country yet has granted Snowden asylum. this Bolivian character said he was considering it - hence why his plane was searched.