Former GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul insisted on Tuesday that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is not a traitor, but he fears the U.S. government may send drones or a cruise missile to kill the 29-year-old, who has fled the United States.
“I don’t think for a minute that he’s a traitor,” Paul told Fox Business’ Melissa Francis.
“Everybody’s worried about him and what they’re going to do, and how they’re going to convict him of treason, and how they’re going to kill him, but what about the people who destroy our Constitution?” the former Texas Republican congressman asserted. “What kind of penalty for those individuals who just take the Fourth Amendment and destroy it? What do we think about people who assassinate American citizens without trials and assume that that’s the law of the land? That’s where our problem is.”
Paul said that “our problem isn’t with people who are trying to tell us the truth about what’s happening” as in the case of Snowden, and he fears that the U.S. government may try to kill the former contractor.
“I’m worried about somebody in our government might kill him with a Cruise missile or a drone missile,” Paul said. “I mean we live in a bad time where American citizens don’t even have rights and that they can be killed, but the gentleman is trying to tell the truth about what’s going on.”
Paul added that there are no signs Snowden is trying to sell U.S. government secrets to Russia or another foreign government, otherwise he wouldn’t have made himself so vulnerable.
“He’s not defecting, there are no signs of that happening,” Paul said. “It’s a shame that we are in an age where people who tell the truth about what the government is doing get into trouble.”
He pointed to the case of a CIA agent who was imprisoned for acknowledging that torture takes place at Guantanamo.
“This is not good that the American people are spied on and the secrets are kept in government,” he said. “That’s not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s supposed to be the other way around.”
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The drone-bombing of US ally Pakistan proves the idiocy of American foreign policy and soon they’ll bomb other places which once considered themselves immune from naked US aggression, and that includes the mainland United States.
Drone-bombing our allies cannot go on and it cannot end well, but collectively western politicians are spineless and will not stand up to the White House or Tel Aviv, so drone-bombing whoever they want wherever they want to will happen. It is a natural development of this raving lunacy.
Drone-bombing, about the most “chicken-shit” way of trying to “be a man” that has been developed. What ever happened to “Death before Dishonor”. The problem begins with the fact that those in charge are without honor or integrity.
That guy ain’t even worth drone bombing. Puhlleassee……
This is just to justify to the people that the government can use drones now on American nationals instead of denying it all the time.
That would do it! Snowden’s (a white American citizen – not some ‘A-rab of color of some inpronounceable nation) extra-judicial murder with this technology and Obama’s official sanction would bring the glaring reality of NDAA to massive public attention and outcry. It would be a bridge too far for both the tyrants and the American public. It most probably would lead to repeal of NDAA and Obama’s impeachment. Murderous, vile and tyrannical, YES! But not stupid. Don’t think it will happen. Then again, as in mythological tragedies, this is precisely how such entities go down due to their arrogance.