hi doma,
the us is making an enormous effort to recover snowden while pretending it is a trivial issue for the newspaper people.
they are obviously terrified of the knowledge he has at his disposal.
i think that the politicians are acting as if they think they themselves are exposed if the truth comes out.
who should go to jail? snowden?
or the folks who secretly spy, torture, rend, undermine liberty etc.?
the principal expressed in magna carta says that even the sovereign - and especially the sovereign - is subject to the rule of law.
"If we, our chief justice, our officials, or any of our servants offend in any respect against any man, or transgress any of the articles of the peace or of this security, and the offence is made known to four of the said twenty-five barons, they shall come to us - or in our absence from the kingdom to the chief justice - to declare it and claim immediate redress. If we, or in our absence abroad the chief justice, make no redress within forty days, reckoning from the day on which the offence was declared to us or to him, the four barons shall refer the matter to the rest of the twenty-five barons, who may distrain upon and assail us in every way possible, with the support of the whole community of the land, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, or anything else saving only our own person and those of the queen and our children, until they have secured such redress as they have determined upon. Having secured the redress, they may then resume their normal obedience to us."
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