US gives FU to Germany with the lack of a no-spy treaty.
Germany should respond by giving asylum to Snowden.
Germany should respond by giving asylum to Snowden.
With the current situation in Germany, Snowden would be dead or in a plane to Guantanamo in very little time. And I guess, even the German BND (comparable to the US NSA) would be helping. I would not trust any promises from a current German government -- by the way, how many US troops are in Germany? I guess, there is no count for US spies yet.
There was a person with a German passport years ago, he was wrongly held in Guantanamo for a while ... against all international rights. Even after they concluded, that there is no evidence against him, they still kept him for some years.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat_Kurnaz
Do you think, only because Snowden has got some German looking waste-paper, the NSA will stop hunting him down?
Dream on!
But most people understand by asylum, that he comes to Germany.
I hope, you don't want to unembarrass Putin ;)
We have to remember, we are talking about our government, the same types that while fighting a war on drugs are also making deals with the Cartels that consolidates power under one and permits import of drugs into our country.
disclaimer: i grew up there
By the way - this is exactly the argumentation neo-Nazi parties parties proclaim all the time [1]. You must be in lack of any information about what is going on in European and German politics to state stuff like this...
It doesn't matter who says it or why. Germany, for better or worse, has little or no sovereignty.
I don't know of any historical countries with 50,000 foreign soldiers in them that were not vassals, let alone sovereigns.
Besides, no EU regulation is ever going to get passed that the German government doesn't want to.