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Why do we know all this? If he had such a perfect plan why does the whole world know where he's headed? Or maybe he's just really bad at keeping secrets.
by rheide 13y ago
Why do we know all this? If he had such a perfect plan why does the whole world know where he's headed? Or maybe he's just really bad at keeping secrets.
- Ihmahr 13y ago> Or maybe he's just really bad at keeping secrets. hihi.
- nknighthb 13y agoDo you think anyone taking a commercial flight is going to be able to hide that from US intelligence? Since there's no one else for him to hide from, what's the point of not telling the public? On the contrary, he probably feels much safer knowing it's impossible for US agents to silently intercept him en route.
- crocowhile 13y agoWe know all this because this is a message from those countries. It's big middle finger to the USA. They are saying: we know exactly where he is and what he is doing but we are not going to stop him - because fuck you. If you read the HK press release, this is so well stated actually "Snowden is going to russia and we are not going to do anything about it. BTW, what about you spying our embassy again?".
- vidarh 13y agoThe HK press release is a beautifully crafted example of how to give a giant middle finger without any bad language.
- nayefc 13y agoWe are all sick of the US acting like the big boss around the world. +1 to Hong Kong, Russia and the rest giving it the big middle finger.
- amorphid 13y agoMy step-father told me a great story about the Cuban Missile Crisis. While Washington and Moscow at each other's throats, he was on a US Navy warship turning away freighters carrying missiles bound for Cuba. As his boat got close to the Russian ships, the crews on either side would wave at each other and take pictures. Regular ol' people to be friendly no matter their background and are not representative of how their governments operate! Please remember the difference between us Americans and the policy makers who represent us :)
- zepolud 13y agoThe Good American syndrome.
- wavefunction 13y agoHaha, just like the Innocent Foreigner syndrome. Most people on this world have to live by the rules of others unfortunately.
- nayefc 13y agoOf course I do :) I've been living in the US for 4 years now. Some of my best friends are American. Regular people are just regular people, just like me and you and most [1] people reading this. [1] Thanks to Snowden, I can confidently write most and not maybe
- outside1234 13y agowe voted for the policy makers, so despite being friendly, its our fault.
- cglace 13y agoIt's not like the policy makers do what you vote them in to do anyway.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
- mtgx 13y agoSo he doesn't have "an accident" on the way, with nobody knowing anything about it.
- akjj 13y agoIt could be misdirection: Buy a ticket to Venezuela on Aeroflot expecting it to leak and quietly buy a Moscow-somewhere ticket on a different airline.
- wavefunction 13y agoIt also gives cover to the Russian government. They could rightfully report that he did indeed have a ticket to Cuba but leave out the fact he also has a ticket to somewhere else, or maybe the plane on its trans-atlantic journey is forced by circumstance to land briefly in a friendly country somewhere along the flight path. We should know soon enough :)