Russia extends Snowden residency by three years

Re:Russia extends Snowden residency by three years by TeMPOraL on Thursday August 07, 2014 @07:26AM (#8147113)

> if a ship is traveling through international waters, are there any grounds for another country to board it and seize its passengers?

Suddenly, pirates, out of fucking nowhere.

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Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if some "random" thing happened to Snowden if he tried to go by a boat. Just like Assange became an sex offender out of the blue the moment he seriously pissed off the US government.

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Re:Russia extends Snowden residency by three years by victorhooi on Thursday August 07, 2014 @10:28AM (#8147851)

Well, not to put a fine point on it, but Assange was already known as a bit of a dick.

I think the issue was, what was considered rape in Sweden was basically just being a misogynistic douche in other countries.

However, he would have known this well before going into the country, it's not like they created a new law just for him.

I doubt the US is so subtle as to use pirates. People seem to have these grand conspiracies about how the government is like a ninja...it's not.

They will simply send the police around and arrest him. Seriously, why are they going to bother with cloak and daggers for? This isn't a Bond movie. They will simply arrest him, and charge him with espionage charges since...err..that's sort of what he did?

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