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http://www.chronicle.su/society/religion-society/snowden-granted-sainthood/

Snowden Granted Sainthood
By Hatesec, on July 10th, 2013
Asylum in the Vatican!

Snowden Granted Sainthood
Pope Francis not only offered Asylum to the renegade NSA staffer and media villain, Edward Snowden, but has granted the man Sainthood in a controversial decision that has the highest priests in Rome praying for simple answers.

“What Snowden did for the suffering masses,” said the Pope, “is something we should expect not from worldly saints such as Kateri Tekakwitha or our hero Edward Snowden – but from ourselves. All people should be attuned to be atoned, to our suffering flock. We are all Edward Snowden. We all have the capacity to be saints.”

Hardline Vatican conservatives blasted the Pope for what is being called “reckless saint honor” in the church.

The Pope offers asylum to Snowden as a gesture of peace to South American Catholics who suffered at the hands of American CIA operations to remove democratically elected officials by assassination and replace them with fundamentalist dictators, turning the entire continent into a Third World Plantation.

“The next thing you know,” said opponent Benito Del Mussili, “We’ll grant sainthood to Barack Obama, or a Kardashian. When will this reckless saint honor before the media finally stop?”

Some priests have reportedly blessed their computers and handheld mobile devices.

Although the Guardian today released a newly-edited version of Glenn Greenwald’s interview with Snowden, there is still no official word from Snowden as to whether he will accept either Sainthood, asylum in Vatican City, neither, or both.

from your Site,Best!

Can you say PWNED?

yea, your right... the reason he's going to prison is for telling government secrets when he swore an oath not to...during war, no less
there is a chain of command the military uses that he could have tried, but didn't...

The "government" is deluding itself if it thinks (if government can think) that IT has any secrets it can keep.

99% of the reason for any 'secrets' is the desire to dominate the entire world and keep the population in ignorance.

Obama is right when he said gone is the time of the cold war. Grow up!

This is an age where an entire library of information can be stored in a child's toy, a cellphone, a camera, a thumb drive, or any other tiny device disguised as a tube of lipstick.

When 'the government' breaks its contracts to the people and breaks promises and lies constantly then and turns around and demands its people to live by their rules or else, then it is time to unveil every 'secret' they think they need to keep.

Bottom line, they want to take our right to privacy, and our right to bear arms, and everything else that defines freedom.

These elite who are running the corporations and the governments think nothing of swearing oaths and breaking them. Their loyalty is only to their secret clubs and family bloodlines and they are intent on screwing everyone else no matter what they have to do.

So get out of the dark ages of thinking you have to die for a flag and protect your lying corrupt leaders. They don't give a crap for the people. You are their enemy. They want to watch your every move, control you,and control your money, your food supply, your energy supply. They want to make you dependent and powerless against them.

And anyone who attempts to reveal to the world what they are doing they want to murder or imprison.

There were other people who, in the past observed their oaths to protect their "homeland" and followed the "legal" orders of their commanders.

Some of them were hanged for atrocities & war crimes at Nuremberg because they were "only following orders.".

no, your completely wrong... only like 11 top generals/high commanders were executed...i posted that article from wiki for you about a month ago... but feel free to look it up... you don't get persecuted in the military by following orders...

the only persecution is by the non-military idiots that cannot understand what its like in the military... the soldiers getting spit on by the loony liberals coming back from Vietnam... they were just following orders and they were persecuted not the military, but by the citizens...

I guess you are not a Viet Nam vet. They were all called "baby killers" when they got back to the states... no matter what they did over there.

yea, i guess when they were ordered to level a village, and it had babies in it, the looney left would see it that way...

I have no idea who you are referring to when you name call a group "the loony left."

BUT ask any returning Viet Nam Vet how they were treated and he will tell you.... people did not appreciate them and called them "baby killers."

Nothing has changed except a more controlled media. They are still killing babies... you just don't hear about it as much because of people swearing an oath to keep their mouths shut.

Keeping the dark classified secrets....... of war.... so that the dirty business of war can continue and the manipulators of these wars can continue to profit from them, as always.

War is about money, that is what it is about.

Its not about freedom it is about wealth and power.

Meanwhile they are taking away our freedom anyway. Spying on us, taking our rights away etc.

Its bull s*h*i*t!

Let's play 'spot the Godwin'.

so you think war should be dignified?
what war did not kill babies?
it's the soldiers fault?
your just as ignorant as the people doing the spitting...

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/cost-of-mail-to-go-up-to-cover-surveillance-costs-t11515.html

In more damaging leaked documents from the NSA, it has been revealed that starting in 2014 all mail will be processed through a new postal facility that will receive, open, scan, and then distribute all letters and parcels mailed in the US or abroad that will be delivered to US addresses.

Currently there are several mail receiving centers where all incoming parcels from foreign countries are currently inspected for drugs or other banned or dangerous substances like beauty products. Starting next year it is not only planned to open all parcels, but to start scanning all letters so that the content of each envelope can be digitally imaged and then stored in the massive NSA data center.

the terrorists won, plain and simple... just like OBL said it would...idiots

the Site is Satire,just like Best's one!
Just shows how easy a Conspiracy-Theory can start up!

If that were actually true, it would put a lot of people to work.

War is supposed to be between two armies, not purposeful slaughtering or torturing civilians.... those are called 'war crimes."

They do happen all the time. Nevertheless, they are war crimes.

The armies are supposed to wear uniforms so they can be identified. That is the reason the Iraqi military all took off their uniforms and abandoned their weapons and disappeared into the civilian population. They saw they were outnumbered and they knew it would be a slaughter to go up against the American Military.

Therefore, there was no 'war' in Iraq. It was simply an invasion.

The "military" became "the resistance" to the invasion, they abandoned their uniforms and weapons. The term "resistance" was renamed "insurgents" because "resistance" made them sound too much like heroes defending the invasion.... (which they were.)

Shock and Awe campaign bombed civilians and hospitals. They killed babies, women, children....

This is not war, this was an invasion.

Rules of Engagement (ROE) are rules or directives to military forces (including individuals) that define the circumstances, conditions, degree, and manner in which force, or actions which might be construed as provocative, may be applied.

They provide authorization for and/or limits on, among other things, the use of force and the employment of certain specific capabilities. In some nations, ROE have the status of guidance to military forces, while in other nations, ROE are lawful commands. Rules of Engagement do not normally dictate how a result is to be achieved but will indicate what measures may be unacceptable.

Somebody somewhere is conspiring about something today...

I can just feel it..!

Given all the details be they lurid or banal of what to most sane and moral people would term "war crimes" be it in an environment of a declared war or of acts committed in a non declared war, no oath to any government to date actually specify just what those oaths of allegiance entail. No oath has any such thing as "truth in advertising"; from all my direct experiences in military services, all oaths are based on hiding the stark reality of just what is demanded and expected of the oath taker. I have always thought that all oaths to govt. and the military should be specific, in other words spell it all out, literally, in clear understandable language that cannot be "interpreted to mean..." or "was meant to be..."
Lets openly admit and say it straight out so that even the most primitive trailer park neanderthal with less than a 4th grade education totally understands just what they are saying in taking an oath to and for their country.
Some countries hide the awful truth by glamourizing what those oaths mean to the general public; they rely on the purely primitive instincts of the general population of most countries while the so called intelligent and educated ones merely snicker while they recite their oath because of formal protocols to repeat them like parrots, all the time knowing that they really mean shyte. One takes an oath of allegiance and one leaves whatever morality they think that they may have, in the garbage can, spiritually labeled "Dump your morals in here if you are a true patriot"
I would love to see all oaths of allegiance specify that the takers will commit what are in most normal minds be murder, torture, kidnapping of men, women and children of any and all those whom the government declare as enemies or hostile to your government's point of view. (Keep a notepad, as the list will get only longer!)
These hostiles and/or enemies will be... anyone, at any time; the guy down the street from where you live, your next door neighbor, some kid in a local high school, some family if Kabul or Rio; makes no difference...go get them and don't forget, always lie to everyone about any and everything; just focus and "do your duty as a true patriot!" Everything is secret and classified. Your govt., your country is your GOD; nothing else, no one else matters. Soon, everyone will become hostile and an enemy, , perhaps your children, parents and/ or spouse. You will report them and in the interest of "National Security" they will be dealt with by those who have sworn to uphold the security of your great and fearless leaders and your sacred country, so help you God...ever wonder just who that 'God' might be? No actual name is ever uttered in any public venue overseen by government people; certainly not Christ; that name is anathema to any govt. that styles itself "of the people, by the people and for the people"
The truth will not set one free but only send you to prison or death if contaminated by morality or conscious. True patriots follow blindly and are immune to morality and will never have a conscious.
Let us all stand and swear our allegiance...and call a spade a spade and not label it as 'a security matter that must be kept classified'.
Shyte on all flags of all governments and their oaths.

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Just a suggestion for you..