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I disagree. It was Iceland which did not bail out its banks, said a nice "FU" to its foreign account holders and has now economic growth (Iceland expanded 4.60
by tiatia 13y ago
I disagree. It was Iceland which did not bail out its banks, said a nice "FU" to its foreign account holders and has now economic growth (Iceland expanded 4.60 percent in the first quarter of 2013 over the previous quarter).
It was also Iceland which gave Bobby Fisher a passport.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Asylum_in_Iceland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Asylum_in_Iceland
You must give the vikings one thing: They've got balls!
Looks like a perfect destination for Snowden in my opinion.
- TheBiv 13y agoI know very little, but on the surface, granting asylum for a chess player is a different beast than granting asylum for someone who dispelled NSA secrets.
- gwern 13y agoAnd Fischer had brought world attention to Iceland during the famous chess match; in contrast, Snowden lacks even that tenuous connection.
- nknighthb 13y agoI think you must not have read the post all the way through (if at all), for Fischer's situation is specifically discussed. Since you apparently did not realize that, you may also be unaware that the author, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, is Icelandic, and is in fact a member of the Icelandic parliament, and offered to try to help Snowden. I expect she's better qualified to speak on this matter than virtually anyone on HN, unless we happen to have an Icelandic immigration attorney hanging around.
- klausjensen 13y agoAs an immigrant taxpayer in Iceland, I am so sick of the BS about how Iceland is an economic wunderkind and how it did not bail out the banks but jailed the bankers.... An Icelandic economist on the truth value of common myths: http://icelandicecon.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-economic-truth-on-iceland.html http://icelandicecon.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-economic-truth...
- kzrdude 13y agoSnowden can not afford to do such a superficial ananlysis.