The saga of whistleblower Edward Snowden took a detour to Austria, with EU nations (under intense pressure form the US) forcing Bolivian President Evo Morales to land and submit his plane to a search on the off chance Snowden might be there.
The change of venue didn’t bring Snowden along with it, however, and he is still in the Moscow international airport waiting for someone to accept his myriad requests for asylum.
The downing of Morales’ plane was all for nothing, in the end, and is set to have diplomatic ramifications as several nations in Latin America are criticizing the “bullying” actions against Morales. It’s just one more grievance against the US from nations that have plenty, and a strike against the EU nations that played along.
The operation against Morales appears likely to unite the region against the hostile action, and may also bolster sympathy for Snowden, making an eventual asylum in Latin America more likely.
Let's hope that the US government's continued acts of arrogance and stupidity finally compels the world to give Snowden shelter. What is it going to take? What more does Snowden have to reveal? What other outlandish acts does the US rogue government have to commit for the rest of the world to get it? Hurry already and give Snowden refuge/asylum.
The stupidity as such by the US government is a act of desperation, this is so absurd along with surveillance and creation of wars and etc. Shows that USA government is running out of options and becoming more of a fascist regime threatening every one with its military or wars. It is a fact that USA social and economic system is a breathing ground for a fascism, that's how Hitlerism was born and now for history to repeat itself.
They downed the Bolivarian plane to send a message to Mad Dog Maduro – don't even think of harboring Snowden.
The illegal diversion of a presidential diplomatic flight and subsequent search of the aircraft in a desperate attempt to entrap, render and silence Edward Snowden is a brazen act of AIR PIRACY and is a further confirmation of Nobel Obama's overt and flagrantly fascistic mentality and behaviour. Obama, the ever preening arrogant narcissistic sociopath with his fresh 'Kill List' in hand ordered a drone's missile to destroy the life of an innocent ten year old child just last Tuesday,just one of many thousands, meanwhile spouting meaningless platitudes about justice, freedom, democracy and 'due process'. Obama, Brennan and Clinton enjoy watching snuff films in the safety of the WH basement, of the point blank mafia style execution of an impotent old man in a wheelchair alone in his attic, or a group of Reuters journalists and cameramen chatting on the street corner taken out by a random helicopter gun-ship crew looking for thrills and high-fives. Obama magnanimously felt compelled to reward young PFC Bradley Manning, who courageously revealed the latter crime with imprisonment and torture 24/7 for three years before dragging him before a military kangaroo tribunal where he risks either life imprisonment or capital punishment for his bravery through the false 'due process' conceived and authorised by AG Holder: This entire Obama regime is criminal beyond measure,and must be indicted, impeached, convicted for high crimes and misdemeanors and jailed for life or brought before an International Tribunal similar to that of Nuremberg. Enough of this reckless and unaccountable authoritarianism!
"Air Piracy". I knew there was an exact legal term for this action, but it wasn't coming up for me. "Air piracy", that IS what it is, I will use the term in all my future discussions of this matter. Thank you.
The war criminal class extends well beyond this administration, further up the ladder to those who have controlled not just this, but the last several US administrations, the heirs of the Powell Memorandum. I have no trust at all for anyone that will blame only one of our ruling parties, they are yoked together like a pair of dutiful oxen to serve every need of our ruling class, the class of fully globalized capital that uses the US as its flag of convenience and arm of authority in the Empire it runs.
Very well put. But it is essential the South American countries make common front and deny their airspace to all French and Portuguese flagged aircraft! These lackeys must be shown that there is a high price to pay for blindly obeying the gangster empire headed by Obama.
An immediate and painful retaliation by a united South American front is the only language the West will understand. If they do that, you'd be surprised how fast the European Union would have an epiphany!
Those hapless €USSR sissies and poodle dogs. At another similar incident Russia said it should better negotiate directly with Washington instead of each end every one of them doing it for them. Now, next time they have guests they should ask the US for permission to overfly the territories of their imperial vassals.
France, for one, appears to have apologized, which only makes them more redicolous. Im sure they miss independent presidents like De Gaulle and Mitterand…
Were the American people to demand an infallibility and purity toward law enforcement and justice, then the entire former Bush and current Obama Administrations must be indicted for numerous infractions of domestic and international treaties and conventions, honorable institutions to which we are signatory and written to protect the innocent in a time of war. What escapes everyday dialogue over the so-call "war on terror" is the fact that the Taliban offered to extradite Osama bin Laden to the Bush Administration but were ignored. Curiously, this is is our stated justification for invading Afghanistan. Currently, a corps of investigative journalists and authors are investigating whether or not failing Trans-Afghan-Pipeline (TAP) negotiations between the Taliban and American concern UNOCAL, necessitated regime change to scuttle Bridas of Argentina's bid and thereby facilitate UNOCAL's being awarded the lucrative, multi-billion dollar contract is and was the main motive and ingredient for US military action.
Imagine Air Force One doing a forced landing and being boarded by scary SWAT teams searching for contraband, illegal surveillance data and traitors, and handcuffing the wife and kids and war department ministers.
Evo Morales was in Russia as Putin's guest in a forum organised by him. Russia should have felt some responsibility for his safe return home. This was as much an affront to Russia as to South America. Next time Mr. Putin convenes a meeting, no leader of a non-client state of the US will feel safe attending it. Russia should demand an immediate apology from Obama and assure future attendees that a repetition of air piracy will not be permitted!
SO it is settle… Europe is America's bitch and America is Europe's Daddy.
It is kind of karmic, considering all the desolation these Euros visited upon the world during the colonial era. Now we are all equal under the US.
Happy Independence day!