Acting in the name of a morality which disdains allegiance to the rule of national law, he deserves to see what life is like beyond its protection. When he thought, last week, that Ecuador was going to give him political asylum, he wrote an oily letter to its president in which he declared that the US system of surveillance was “a grave violation of our universal human rights”. Now let him find out how hollow those rights are when not guaranteed within a democratic legal order. Let him eat the free peanuts in the transit lounge of life, and learn, too late, what is needed to defend a free people.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:50:34 +0000
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