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Leopolds Ghost

(12,875 posts)
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 08:47 PM Sep 2013

Thank you Edward Snowden! (Metro Bus Ad Edition)

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[font face="Helvetica" color="#555555"]We have a dream… and know we can do this! Click the image and donate what you can to PCJF’s “Thank you Edward Snowden!” bus ad campaign![/font]
Excerpted from the link at my other post on PBS "Top Secret America" this is from a blog that got sent to me:

[div class="excerpt" style="width:80%"][font face="Georgia" color="#333333" size="3"]Saying “thank you” to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden never goes out of style — especially when you can make surveillance state bureaucrat heads explode by saying it on the side of a Metro bus. * That seems to be the thinking over at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF), who are fundraising to do just that right in a certain metropolitan area:

[blockquote style="white-space:nowrap"]The elites in D.C. may not ride the bus, but they can’t avoid reading the
bus! We want the world to see that we, The People of the United States,
support Edward Snowden, and oppose the creation of a surveillance state
without our consent.


Let’s give them a hand, shall we?

We assume some of your donation may also go towards the great work PCJF does year in and year out; late last year, for example, they obtained FOIA documents proving the FBI was already surveilling the Occupy movement prior to the famous Zucotti Park occupation in 2011.

So your donation will be well spent indeed. (If — no, when! — you do contribute, please leave a comment so we can get an idea how much we helped out PCJF (with) their excellent “Thank You Edward Snowden!” campaign (...)[/font]
[div class="excerpt" style="width:80%"][font face="Georgia" color="#333333" size="3"]
PS: while you’re at it, please add your name to our “Van Hollen, Delaney: Wrong on NSA” petition, chiding our representatives for their regrettable “No” votes on the Amash-Conyers amendment, but suggesting concrete legislative steps they can take to make amends.

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* (EXPLANATORY DISCLAIMER) Dear NSA: the phrase “make someone’s head explode” should not be taken literally. Rather, it is a figure of speech describing the act of vexing someone, in this case for their (well, your) unpopularity.[/font]

I know nothing about this other than what I read above, so if anyone has any details, feel free...

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Thank you Edward Snowden! (Metro Bus Ad Edition) (Original Post) Leopolds Ghost Sep 2013 OP
Recommend! DEFINITELY! KoKo Sep 2013 #1
Hi KoKo! Have you been around? I missed you. Leopolds Ghost Sep 2013 #3
Great idea. A whole lot of people are very grateful to Whistle Blowers. sabrina 1 Sep 2013 #2
+1 woo me with science Sep 2013 #12
Will donating to this put you on the No-Fly list or some sort of terrorist watch list? 1-Old-Man Sep 2013 #4
That's what *I* want to know. Leopolds Ghost Sep 2013 #11
I don't think donating to PCJF directly will cause any harm. Leopolds Ghost Sep 2013 #13
But, but, but... mindwalker_i Sep 2013 #5
HUGE K&R woo me with science Sep 2013 #6
Fixed... SidDithers Sep 2013 #7
The only reason he's in Russia is becsause a) we downed every plane we thought he was on Leopolds Ghost Sep 2013 #9
Also you should do it in Russian. Leopolds Ghost Sep 2013 #10
kick woo me with science Sep 2013 #8
I watched it but I think I'll watch it again. Luminous Animal Sep 2013 #14
It was good. Leopolds Ghost Sep 2013 #15
If the Post can publish the graphics than you should be able to. Luminous Animal Sep 2013 #16
After that, plan to do something! hootinholler Sep 2013 #17

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
2. Great idea. A whole lot of people are very grateful to Whistle Blowers.
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 08:56 PM
Sep 2013

And that is a great way of saying thank you!

Leopolds Ghost

(12,875 posts)
13. I don't think donating to PCJF directly will cause any harm.
Sun Sep 22, 2013, 09:04 AM
Sep 2013

If one put in the memo line that it was in response to the bus ad campaign.

mindwalker_i

(4,407 posts)
5. But, but, but...
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 10:44 PM
Sep 2013

He's not a HERO! And he STOLE stuff! And it's not supposed to be about him!

Waaaaaaa!

(I don't think the bureacrats's heads will be the only ones exploding)

Leopolds Ghost

(12,875 posts)
9. The only reason he's in Russia is becsause a) we downed every plane we thought he was on
Sat Sep 21, 2013, 11:06 AM
Sep 2013

And b) Obama spectacularly messed up (not my original choice of words) foreign policy negotiations over Syria.

If we were going to invade Syria the time to do so would have been when we went into Libya for its oil instead.
Then we might have been able to oust Assad at a time when hard-liners still ran the Iranian Executive office.

Why didn't we? Because Obama didn't want to appear to be doing anything that Occupy and its allied groups
supported at the time. (Same reason DC just voted to repeal a living wage act in order to let Wal-Mart in.)

As Hillary would be quick to point out, Syria has no oil. (she's the one who said we had to keep some sort of
presence in Iraq because we had a vital interest in its natural resources.)

Leopolds Ghost

(12,875 posts)
15. It was good.
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 10:10 PM
Sep 2013

Only saw the first part though. Will have to watch the rest.

I still would like to repost my scans of the graphics from the
original Post article but I guess I'll have to go and see if they
are still online because I guess I'm not allowed to if they are?

Funny how copyright law prevents spreading needed information...

I had a post written up and everything this summer.

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