Dick Cheney slithered out of his snake den in Wyoming long eneough to give America his long awaited opinion on Edward Snowden. Cheney, a war criminal of great renown, mass murderer, and drive-by hunting enthusiast, called Edward Snowden a traitor. In Cheney's addled world-view anybody who tells the American people the truth, seeks to make our rogue government transparent and accountable, and attempts to bring much needed humanity into our contemporary world is a bad guy. Cognitive dissonance has never been a factor in Cheny's ideology of hate and profiteering from war. In my view, Edward Snowden is a hero like Daniel Ellsberg, Bradley Manning, and Julian Assange are heroes offering Americans the hope of redemption in a complicit age of apathy and bottomless ignorance.
Obama's attempts to prosecute/persecute Snowden using the labile provisions of the Espionage Act as pretext are not irony deficient. Eugene Debs, the Socialist leader and candidate for president while in imprisoned, was sentenced to ten years in a Federal prison under the provisions of the newly concocted Espionage Act. Debs' crime was a speech he gave in Ohio attacking Presisdent Wilson's efforts to convince America that World War I was a noble opportunity in which we had a moral obligation to participate. It was also a much needed bailout of J.P. Morgan, the richest man in the world, who was financing the English and French as an investment. Deb's was imprisoned because the richest guy in the world stood to lose money in another war that need not and should not have been.
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