Snowden and South American Offers!

From the NSP News Service:  As you can see from the article excepted below, a number of South American nations are, to one degree or another, offering Snowden asylum. He should, in our opinion, not delay in getting the formalities over with and completed in order to take up asylum in a South American country. We at the NSP still assert that Snowden is an American patriot who deserves praise for his courage in "outing" the evils of the American regime in Washington.

It is also quite significant that a number of South American nations have spoken out against American imperialism and the American attitude (fostered, we know, by Jewish "meddle in everything" thinking) that the U.S. can do whatever it wishes to do, anywhere and anytime, against anybody, simply because the U.S. is "entitled" to do so. That is a shameful attitude, and it is far cry from anything the U.S. "founding fathers" envisioned.

-- Thomas Folz, Assistant Director of Communications, NSP.  1488!

 

Venezuela: Snowden has until Monday to respond to asylum offer

Ariana Cubillos / AP file

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks on July 5.

By Daniel Arkin and F. Brinley Bruton, NBC News

Venezuelan officials say they have not heard from Edward Snowden since the country offered the professed NSA leaker asylum, but would wait until Monday to hear if he would take up the offer.
“There has not been any type of communication,'' Foreign Minster Elias Jaua said on state television late on Saturday. “We are waiting until Monday to know whether he confirms his wish to take asylum in Venezuela.”
News of the apparent deadline followed the announcement by the president of Bolivia that it was joining Venezuela and Nicaragua in indicating that they would offer asylum to fugitive, who is believed to be hiding inside the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport as the United States continues efforts to have him extradited.

Now that the presidents of Nicaragua, Bolivia and Venezuela have offered to grant NSA leaker Edward Snowden asylum, it's unclear what will happen to him or where he will go. But wherever it is, it won't come soon enough for Russian President Putin. NBC's Jim Maceda reports.

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Bolivia’s Evo Morales made his offer Saturday, three days after a plane carrying the leftist leader over Europe was rerouted amid reports that Snowden was aboard. The change in flight plan set off a diplomatic storm that heightened tensions between the United States and the South American nation.
President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela both condemned the U.S. spy programs that Snowden revealed and said he deserved protection.
“Who is the guilty one? A young man ... who denounces war plans, or the U.S. government which launches bombs and arms the terrorist Syrian opposition against the people and legitimate President Bashar al-Assad?'' Maduro asked, to applause and cheers from military officers at a parade on Saturday.
Venezuela "decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American Edward Snowden" so he can live without "persecution from the empire," Maduro said, referring to the U.S. He extended the invitation to Snowden during a speech Friday commemorating the anniversary of Venezuela's independence, according to the Associated Press.
Since winning a presidential vote in April that followed leader Hugo Chavez's death from cancer, Maduro has often criticized the United States, and accused it of plotting to kill him.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers told CNN on Sunday that he “absolutely” thinks one of the South American countries will provide Snowden with travel documents.
Rogers (R-MI) said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the U.S. should “send a very clear message” to the nations offering Snowden asylum “that we won’t put up with this kind of behavior.”

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey told CNN on Sunday that Snowden’s revelations have hurt U.S. diplomatic relationships and “the importance of trust.”