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Europe Denies Landing Rights to Bolivian Pres. Evo Morales -”Snowden Might be on Plane”… US will “Chase Him to Ends of the Earth,” Sen. Lindsey Graham
Meanwhile, Obama ‘won’t scramble jets to find Snowden’. He’s just a whistle blower.
Back when the U.S. wasn’t run by criminals the call was always, “will witnesses to the crime please come forward to help in our investigations?”
Then the Witness Protection Program began because criminals would chase witnesses to the “Ends of the Earth” to prevent them from telling their stories.
Today, one has to come down on the side of justice and ask, “what are they hiding? More attacks on civilians like the callous Apache chopper attack that Manning revealed?”
On the side of us civilians, why disarm us unless this government is afraid of us?
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” - Abraham Lincoln, 1861.
Perhaps that time has come.
“On July 9, the Organization of American States held a special session to discuss the shocking behavior of the European states that had refused to allow the government plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales to enter their airspace.
Morales was flying home from a Moscow summit on July 3. In an interview there he had said he was open to offering political asylum to Edward J. Snowden, the former U.S. spy-agency contractor wanted by Washington on espionage charges, who was in the Moscow airport.
The OAS expressed its solidarity with Morales, condemned “actions that violate the basic rules and principles of international law such as the inviolability of Heads of State,” and “firmly” called on the European governments – France, Italy, Portugal and Spain – to explain their actions and issue apologies.
An emergency meeting of UNASUR – the Union of South American Nations – denounced “the flagrant violation of international treaties” by European powers.
Latin American heads of state weighed in, too. President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil expressed the country’s “indignation and condemnation of the situation imposed on President Evo Morales by some European countries” and warned that this “serious lack of respect for the law . compromises dialogue between the two continents and possible negotiations between them.”
Commentators were less reserved. Argentine political scientist Atilio Boron dismissed Europe as “the whore of Babylon,” cringing before power.
MORE HERE truth-out.org-is-edward-j-snowden-aboard-this-plane?
