Re:Snowden calls on France’s Macron to grant him asylum
by java-man on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:53AM
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Somehow this comment triggered the image of Chamberlain waving the paper in front of the crowds in 1938 [0].
I know, my country is far from being Germany at that time, but we do have a very colorful character at the top, exhibiting somewhat similar tendencies.
Think of the chances a "country against out-of-control gov't surveillance" has against the power of a certain three letter agencies that get an order to pressure the said country. Think of [1]
[2] https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/munich-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional...
Re:Snowden calls on France’s Macron to grant him asylum
by hollerith on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:29PM
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>The biggest hurdle at this point is, what does any European government have to gain from granting Snowden asylum?
Preventing the Russians from extracting information from Snowden that they haven't extracted already.
Re:Snowden calls on France’s Macron to grant him asylum
by blaser-waffle on Monday September 16, 2019 @04:32PM
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Why would France care about this? Unless Snowy had secrets about their country, why would anyone care? That's a lot of political capital spent with little return.
Plus, Snowden already blabbed about what the US was doing, why should they think that he hasn't already spilled the beans about other countries?
If a European government was staunchly against government surveillance overreach, maybe they could do it as a statement in support of their values. But why worsen diplomacy with the US (and the Five Eyes nations) when you don't have to? Any country against out-of-control gov't surveillance can simply mind their own affairs in that spirit without getting involved with the Snowden issue.