What a coincidence. I happened to watch Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” last night. Extremely well done and sobering movie. The fact that it did only $21 million at the box office is a tribute to the Deep State and the MSM propaganda machines which have convinced the majority of ignorant Americans that Snowden is a traitor and endangered the national security of the country.
Nothing but bullshit. He proved that Clapper lied to Congress. Why is that fucker not in prison? He revealed to the whole world that everything they say, type, or record is being monitored by their government and will be used against them whenever the Deep State chooses.
Interestingly, the movie has an actual snippet of Trump saying Snowden should be executed. Assange and Snowden did more for the people of this world than any two men of the 20th & 21st century. The failure of people to support their release is a black mark for humanity. The Deep State has become bolder since Snowden’s revelations, basically saying “what the fuck are you going to do about it?”
Well. What are we going to do about it?
Filmmaker Oliver Stone has joined the growing chorus of activists calling for President Trump to pardon Julian Assange and Edward Snowden – without whom we wouldn’t know about intrusive government surveillance programs, the United States’ aggressive drone strike program, or that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager and his brother are apparently into ‘spirit cooking‘ with a satanic performance artist.
According to Stone, pardoning the pair of whistleblowers “will take the edge off his pardons for his family & loyalists by being unselfish and not self-serving. And at the least, confound his many critics — as well as future historians.”
Second, “It will drive his enemies in #DeepState and #Media absolutely nuts!”
“A pardon of @Snowden and #Assange would be a great shock to this world, and reflect well on @realDonaldTrump,” wrote Stone in a Thursday tweet. “Despite all the negatives he’s created, it will be seen as a purely merciful action. It will not be forgotten.”
Why @realDonaldTrump should pardon @Snowden & #Assange: 1. It will take the edge off his pardons for his family & loyalists by being unselfish and not self-serving. And at the least, confound his many critics — as well as future historians. pic.twitter.com/2y6dTxxelM
— Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) December 3, 2020
A pardon of @Snowden and #Assange would be a great shock to this world, and reflect well on @realDonaldTrump. Despite all the negatives he’s created, it will be seen as a purely merciful action. It will not be forgotten.
— Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) December 3, 2020
On Thursday, Edward Snowden asked President Trump to pardon Assange.
Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency during your time in office, please: free Julian Assange. You alone can save his life. @realDonaldTrump
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 3, 2020
Snowden — who released classified documents on surveillance programs — fled to Hong Kong, and later to Moscow, to seek asylum. He tweeted last month that he and his wife were applying for Russian citizenship.
Meanwhile, Assange faces a sentence of up to 175 years in prison if convicted of charges of conspiring to hack government computers and for violating the 1917 Espionage Act for “unlawfully obtaining and disclosing classified documents related to the national defence.” –The Hill
Meanwhile for more on Oliver Stone, read: Oliver Stone, America Firster authored by Bill Kauffman via The American Conservative
At root, Oliver Stone is a patriot who despises the American Empire for corrupting his country, and a far cry from your run-of-the-mill Hollywood liberal.
I first became aware of Oliver Stone when in 1986 I was watching his film Salvador with an audience of left-wing Santa Barbarians. They were enjoying this madcap cinematic indictment of Uncle Sam’s imperialist crimes in Central America—until a scene in which the rebel forces, riding to town like a Marxist cavalry in the righteous cause of The People, began executing the unenlightened. Then the boos rang down.
Who is this guy, I wondered. My curiosity was whetted further when the P.C. reviewer in the Los Angeles Herald denounced Stone’s screenplays for earlier films: “Movies like Midnight Express, Scarface, and Year of the Dragon are such grand-scale xenophobic fever-dreams that they almost demand to be remade into operas, complete with belching smoke and lurid lighting and crimson-suited devils scurrying out of the wings to pitchfork lily-white Mother America.”
Ah, a left-wing America Firster!
Not quite, as his subsequent work and his entertaining new memoir, Chasing the Light, illumine, but Oliver Stone, our most political major filmmaker, evinces a rowdily heterodox vision shaped by the unusual quartet of Jim Morrison, Sam Peckinpah, Frank Capra, and Jean-Luc Godard.
What do you call a man who joins the Merchant Marine on a whim, runs up big pro football gambling debts, and takes the Old Right view of FDR’s foreknowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
I’d call him an American.
Stone was a rich kid, the son of an FDR-hating Jewish Republican who had served on Eisenhower’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force staff and a French Catholic party girl. He attended the Hill School, played on the tennis team, was devastated by his parents’ divorce, and then went seriously off script.
Avid for experiences, Stone dropped out of Yale, taught in a Catholic school in Taiwan, and volunteered to fight in Vietnam. He came home with a Bronze Star, shrapnel in his ass, and a taste for “powerful Vietnamese weed.”
Stone’s politics hadn’t changed all that much, though. He had supported Barry Goldwater in 1964 and would vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980. In later years he became more explicitly libertarian, expressing support for Ron Paul and making a film about Edward Snowden.
At root, Oliver Stone is a patriot who despises the American Empire for corrupting his country. JFK, his fantasia on the Deep State, echoes Dwight Eisenhower’s warning that “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence” by “the military-industrial complex.” Platoon and Salvador bespeak an old-fangled American anti-interventionism in an age when that tendency, once the default position of ordinary Americans, is a virtual thoughtcrime.
Lost innocence is as common in Stone’s films as splattered blood. In Midnight Express, the Turkish prison movie to end all Turkish prison movies, protagonist Billy Hayes is a Long Island college kid just trying to make a few bucks by smuggling two kilos of hashish to sell to his friends. Heck, it’s no different than being the guy who runs out to pick up the pizza and beer at halftime! (The real Hayes, as Stone later learned, was on his fourth smuggling run and was about as innocent as Brad Davis, the deeply troubled actor who played him.)
When his sentence is stretched from four to 30 years, Billy explodes in a Stone-penned courtroom rant that belongs in the xenophobe’s hall of fame: “For a nation of pigs it sure is funny you don’t eat ’em … I hate you, I hate your nation, and I hate your people.”
Yikes! As the husband of an Armenian I’m not overly sensitive to slights against the Turkish nation, but this was a tad intemperate. But so was the left-wing French newspaper Liberation, which reviled Stone as “a madman of the Right.”
A pithier America First line from Stone’s pen came in Year of the Dragon (1985), when a New York City cop (Mickey Rourke) responds to a Chinese gangster who is describing his culture’s ancient tolerance of gambling and extortion: “This is America you’re living in and it’s 200 years old, so you’d better get your clocks fixed.”
Stone’s co-writer on Year of the Dragon was Michael Cimino, whose Oscar-winning epic The Deer Hunter was unusual for its sympathetic treatment of small-town working-class men whose church is central to their lives. Critic Pauline Kael sneered at The Deer Hunter’s “traditional isolationist message: Asia should be left to the Asians, and we should stay where we belong, but if we have to be over there we’ll show how tough we are.” A Trumpian message, on Trump’s better days. Cimino blew up his career with the sprawling Heaven’s Gate, a commercial disaster that snuffed his long-dreamt-of goal of filming Ayn Rand’s novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
Liberal Hollywood, eh?
Bill Kauffman is the author of 11 books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette and Ain’t My America.
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I have often wondered why Trump has not pardoned both Snowden and Assange.
I think the answer is more simple than we realize.
Trump may think that the deep state will actually roll over and give up. This is part and parcel of how he has handled them from day one. The courts are the friend of businessmen who work and move in the real estate development world, particularly large-size projects Trump has always been involved in.
He fails to realize that as dirty as that business may be, if you are a developer caught red-handed doing shady shit like forging docs, egregious violations of safety and zoning codes, sacks of cash being handed off to various zoning oversight boards…you tend to go up in flames because the people in who’s back yard you are doing this stuff are vocal and pissed about it and have more control over who runs the show.
The days of the mob bullying everyone and controlling everything to get shit built has been over for a long time.
But the government…well…they are the show. From top to tail they control every actor, every snippet, every sound bite.
If they are made to look bad rest assured they will make you look worse.
This is their game, always has been, always will be.
Snowden pulled back the curtain and that cannot stand. So in true deep state fashion, they doubled down and painted this man as a traitor. But a traitor to who? Really only to them.
Only they are allowed to do egregious shit and answer to no one. Everyone else, well it’s prison for you buster.
And while you’re there, depending on what you know about who, particularly the Lich Queen, you may or may not commit suicide while you’re awaiting trial. And you know, guards fall asleep, cameras fail all the time.
A pardon may not save the lives of either of these men, as the long tentacle of the creature reaches fairly far, and as we all know, accidents happen, amiright? I mean it would be a real shame, a damn shame, if Snowden gets pardoned only to have an accident some night on a twisty back road in the middle of nowhere.
At this point poor Julian looks like he may have cracked and his grip on reality is probably tenuous at best. It would take very little to force some kind of permanent mental institution on this poor soul.
With all we all have seen and heard regarding election fraud, it is probably a good bet that pretty much no voter anywhere has mattered in a very long time. “Our Brand is Crisis” pretty much sums it up, and Americans can watch this and think it doesn’t happen here but that’s magical thinking on a grand scale.
Ask yourself this, WHY WOULDN’T THEY DO IT HERE? They have everything to gain and zero to lose, at least so far.
So we can say things like “Well, California, you voted for it so you get what you deserve!” But really, did they? How can we know? Same goes for any crumbling Dem stronghold. Did the people actually vote for their own demise? It does seem to be less and less likely.
It may be that the show that has been put on for so long is now starting to show some cracks and wear and tear. The set is old, the actors are tired and in some cases riddled with cognitive problems. People are starting to see the wires.
Hopefully it’s not too late.
People are very quick to state ‘They voted for them so ****’m.
But… now knowing just how much the criminal demoncraps cheat, the questions need to be asked, DID they really vote these criminals in or were these past elections really stolen?
So unless a completely independent, non political organization or entity, under strict security, conduct the vote. Then there no way to know whether the vote is cheated or not. Criminal communists know one thing well, How to cheat followed up with how to lie.
I suspect that many demoncrap controlled states, counties etc have been stolen.
Assange never gave up his source SethRich. So, now he is going down with his honor code which will soon never exist under the Commies.
Let him rot in hell.
You think fingering Rich would’ve saved Assange? Not only would it not have saved Assange from the revenge he’s being subjected to now, naming Rich would have just been painted as him cooking up a story to help his own plight. At least half of the people in this country are dolts who still think that Russia hacked the DNC servers and stole those e-mails over the internet.
ass-ange and snowjob are Cia honey pots.
they both tout the company line on 911.
any whistle blower who contacts them, winds up dead, or in jail.
The CIA / Military Industrial Complex opposes either Assange or Snowden being pardoned. I wish Trump would pardon both of them, but I fear he won’t pardon either. I suspect he’s gotten a message like “Nice family you got. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them”. That’s not to excuse him – or any of the other politicians or Supreme Court Justices they’ve threatened. It’s just a likely explanation of why he wouldn’t issue pardons that 2/3 of Americans favor. Sucks.